The problem is solved on my machine - I replaced the SATA cabling with better quality Akasa latch cables instead of the cheap cables that come with the motherboards. So far I have installed and run Ubuntu/Hardy and installed Gentoo (on another partition) and compiled X/Gnome with no problems. The machine has been rebooted several times and has not frozen once.
So I can confirm that one possible cause of the error - [ 231.478375] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Could be poor quality cabling. Googling around problems with cheap SATA cabling are very common. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
