Hi all.  I too had these issues right after upgrading my system to
13.10.  My experience mirrors that of Phill, with a few differences:

* Sound output is sometimes interrupted in my audio player
* Mouse still moves (clicks don't work) BUT it sometimes freezes as well
* The problem occurs in a virtual console as well.  Emacs freezes (I can't 
enter text)
* No reboot required.  But sometimes it takes a long time for the computer to 
unfreeze.
* Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit (3.11.0-7-generic)

Furthermore, contrary to saha's experience,  there isn't any correlation
between a freeze and cpu load for me.  Also saha is running a
3.8.0-25-generic kernel and the freezes don't occurs with 3.8.0 for me
(see end of my comment).

I have a laptop with nvidia optimus (intel graphics + discrete nvidia
card, however the intel card always drives the display even though the
nvidia card might be the source).  The problem occurs while using any of
the 2 graphics adapters.  However a bug in the intel driver could still
be to blame, but very unlikely in my opinion.  So I don't think this is
a graphics issue.

Now, I also have a 3.8.0-30-generic kernel, which I have been using for
an hour now.  No freezes yet.  So I think this is a kernel bug.  I think
it unlikely to be a problem related to a combination kernel + gfx card
because as I mentioned the problem occurs without X too.  I will update
my comment if a freeze occurs.

I will try different kernels and see what happens and report back.

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