I am having this problem -- just started a couple of days ago on a
4-week old ("semi-fresh") GG 7.10 installation (dual-boots w/ W2K on a
Compaq desktop, AMD Athlon CPU, 64MB, 2 IDE disks w/ 2 partitions for
Linux and 2 for Windows, ATI Radeon 9250 display adapter). This "random
freezes" problem seems, to me, to be a critical bug, impacting Ubuntu
availability, reliability and integrity -- It also seems to be showing
up in several/various Bug Reports in various descriptions and forms, but
these all seem, at the bottom, related.
There is a very extensive Ubuntu Forums thread,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=412125, "feisty fawn freezes !
driving me insane", with well over 800 posts referring directly to this
problem. Support/developers may want to "data mine" this thread for
additional anecdotal evidence, if not already done so...
This problem "randomly freezes" is pervasive and widespread across
multiple hardware (e.g., nvidia *and* ATI/Radeon cards, desktops and
laptops, Intel and AMD cpus, etc.), releases (feisty and gutsy, at least
-- yes, *many* 7.10 users are currently experiencing the problem), and
seems largely independent of what, precisely, the user was doing when
the next *random* freeze/hang/lock-up occurs (e.g., compriz, firefox,
printing, "typing quickly", or just "mousing around").
Various postings on that thread recommend a wide variety of workarounds
and "fixes" for the problem -- judging from that anecdotal evidence, no
one thing seems to work, or even to pin-point the problem.
This Bug #117651, together with that Forums thread#412125, all seem also
related to Bugs #103400 (compiz freezes x server after screensaver kicks
in), #108527 (X freezes when compiz is enabled on ATI cards), and
#120347 (xorg hang after longer (12h) idle time), at a minimum -- there
may be other bug reports that are directly related, tho' using different
words/symptoms to describe the same overall problem.
Shameless admission: I'm a Linux newbie here -- but I do have over 25
years of sw-dev experience on mainframes and mini's (VMS -- yes,
probably mostly irrelevant here! ;-) ) -- and it just seems to me that
tying awareness of these Bugs (and others?), together with the above-
ref'd Forum thread, would be helpful in resolving this critical "random
freeze" problem for all of us. Respectfully -- Lorin
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