Bingo. Disable wireless, remove ath5k and use Ethernet cable and it works great for lot longer than normal. Re-enable wireless and it crashes in 2 seconds flat.
Sorry for wasting the X11 peoples time, need to reassign to the Linux Atheros driver team. [lspci] 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM Device 058a Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ath5k Kernel modules: ath5k -- [i945gm] System freeze induced by Chrome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546871 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