a little bit of history: (i'll try to keep this short, but 1. some background on my situation might help tracking down the source of the bug and 2. this has been going on for so long that i feel it's time to abuse this website here to log some history of events before i forget it all...)
i had kubuntu 8.04 on my server for several years (iirc since it came out), running a number of virtual machines to provide all kinds of services (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, database, version control, mail, doc repo, a couple of TB of storage from a ZFS pool over a virtual FreeBSD machine, etc. pp.) never even the slightest issue. then i relocated, i.e. moved house. the server was sitting in storage for a couple of months and then was shipped on a container ship from one continent to another. when i got it back at last, a few fans had died, the cpu had jumped out of its socket, some cards were loose. after i'd fixed all that, i installed kubuntu 10.04 (original .0 version back then i believe). then the system froze. i'd never had anything like that before. nothing in the logs, nothing in dmesg, no chance to recover apart from a cold reboot. considering quite some hardware had not made it over the ocean without damage, i assumed a hardware issue; after all, the system started ok, but then froze after a while (2 hours ?) so i started running memory tests which revealed nothing and then went about replacing hardware - graphics card (2x), motherboard, cpu, memory, drives, finally the psu. now the only piece of equipment that's left is the case with its LEDs and switches. this gives reason to believe it's a software, not a hardware problem, but there's still the theoretical possibility even the new hardware is flaky - and ubuntu had never ever frozen on me like that... i posted the issue at http://serverfault.com/questions/290627/linux- freezes-how-to-find-out-if-hardware-or-software-is-the-cause (of course i should have done this much earlier, before i spend any money, guess that's what happens when you're dealing with stuff like that without a second pair of eyes). in the process, i also came across http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1756270 so much for my historical notes (mostly to self), will post some info more relevant to the bug next. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813301 Title: 10.04.2 64bit freezes reproducibly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/813301/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
