Last night, after about 13 hours of uptime, the system became
unresponsive.  All KVM guests were disabled, and the system was pretty
quiet .  Unfortunately, I was sacked out, so I didn't see anything
happen, and nothing unusual was logged.  The system _was_ however
transcoding an mkv video  to mpeg2video, about 1.1 GB in size, but the
process wasn't running as root, it was running as user pytivo.  After
rebooting and disabling all KVM guests, I once again transcoded two mkv
videos as user pytivo, and this did not take the system down.

I've now booted with the natty narwhal kernel again:
vmlinuz-2.6.37-8-server .  While vmlinuz-2.6.37-9-server HAS loaded from
the ppa, grub will not utilize it, claiming it is a xen kernel.  I have
logged a separate bug report on that  (688977) .

I am currently booted with kernel option "nomodeset" to clean up logging
a bit.  I'm running vmstat to monitor free memory as well, so with the
next system hang, I'll at least have a picture of the final vmstat
situation.

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Title:
  lucid system randomly locks up, does not recover

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