I updated my location in my profile, so hopefully that makes
communication easier.  Thanks for pointing that out!

When you mentioned X-Windows, it made me think that maybe Compiz was the
problem.  The thing is, I run Compiz on my desktop, but I have
compositing disabled on my MythTV box in order to avoid vsync issues.

However, I do have the newest nVidia driver, 190.42, installed on both
machines, whereas I had 185.18.36 up until several days ago.  When I
installed the Ubuntu 9.10 final release, I went to nVidia's site to get
the driver and forgot that they had posted a new version.  Either way,
I've downgraded back to 185.18.36 and so far my system has yet to hang
in the last hour or so (on either computer).  I'm going to keep testing
it through the rest of the week, but so far it seems like this might
have been due to a change in the nvidia driver.

Also, for what it's worth, I did SSH into my machine and run top from
there.  Most of the time compiz.real was hogging the CPU, but a couple
times it was firefox.  I didn't get a chance to try the same with my
MythTV box, but considering the implementation of OpenGL in MythTV, I'm
thinking that might have been what was tripping it up there (I don't
have compositing running on that box in order to avoid vsync issues).
Reading the info at nvidia's driver download page
(http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.42.html), it
appears they added support for OpenGL 3.2 in that driver, so maybe
that's what was causing problems?

Don't close the bug quite yet, just in case it still occurs with the
older driver.  I'll post again in the next few days to say whether it's
showed up again or not.  Thank you for your help.

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Karmic Frequently Hangs with 100% CPU
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