Okay, 35 seconds was a lucky shot, I tried again and it was going on for more than 10 minutes. I killed the display settings through the console but it persisted. I then fired up top to see what was draining the system, Xorg it seems was taking up 100%
** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26235035/Screenshot.png -- Opening the display preferences dialog, almost freezes the operating system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370563 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