Public bug reported: i dont know what happens really...
the system becomes completely unresponsive...i tried doing ctrl+alt+f1 and finally got a tty...it seems that gdm or X finally restarted... other times i restarted gdm manually... dmesg gives this: [17351611.056000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. [17351611.540000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. [17351614.364000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [17351614.364000] <c01491cf> softlockup_tick+0x9f/0xf0 <c012bee1> update_process_times+0x31/0x80 [17351614.364000] <c0114d13> smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x53/0x60 <c010413c> apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x30 [17351642.324000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [17351642.324000] <c01491cf> softlockup_tick+0x9f/0xf0 <c012bee1> update_process_times+0x31/0x80 [17351642.324000] <c0139320> hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x60 <c0114d13> smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x53/0x60 [17351642.324000] <c010413c> apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x30 <c0139320> hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x60 [17351642.324000] <c01172c8> hpet_readl+0x8/0x10 <c010e98a> get_offset_hpet+0xa/0x30 [17351642.324000] <c0106959> do_gettimeofday+0x19/0xc0 <c0139320> hrtimer_get_res+0x0/0x60 [17351642.324000] <c0126f3d> getnstimeofday+0xd/0x30 <c0135697> sys_clock_gettime+0x77/0x90 [17351642.324000] <c0102fbb> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79 could it be skype? skype seems to lock the system up when incoming or outgoing calls... dont know what to make of this but freezes are nasty... im on edgy thanks ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- lockup of edgy and crash of X https://launchpad.net/bugs/71037 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs