jdacronym wrote: > Well, it's happened again, this time on Xfce. I could still move cursor > and windows around and top and the toolbars were still updating, but > unfortunately everything else was shot. Then the toolbars died as well. > Couldn't even open a terminal to shut down the machine or kill any > processes. > > However, top was open, so I was able to write down the top four cpu- > users: > > ksoftirqd/1 > dd > klogd > firefox > > ksoftirqd in particular was using up to 60%, dd anywhere from 30%-50%, > klogd usually around 30s, and firefox about 15% or so (there were > actually two instances running, on account of my clicking the firefox > launcher twice before the machine hung. > > Hello I traced my problem to the swap partition. I had reorganized my 250GB hard drive. In doing so, I moved the swap partition to a different part of the disk. I used gparted to do this.
Unfortunately, on moving the swap partition to another part of the disk, Gparted did not update the UUID of the swap partition in /etc/fstab. Consequently, Ubuntu was constantly looking for the Linux swap partition using its old UUID. Correcting the swap partition's UUID manually in /etc/fstab cured the problem instantly and permanently. Regards, Rob -- Hardy Heron locks up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249123 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
