Found another bug that may be related to this. My system doesn't lockup fully, but Pidgin gets close to 100% load at times, and that's fixed by switching the appearance in GNOME.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-qt-engine/+bug/68578 -- general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178115 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