Comment 76 for bug 479296

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Rick Silva (silvari) wrote :

Back to report a couple additional observations...

- when the desktop & mouse freeze occurs, I *am* still able to ssh in to the system. So it appears that it's not a complete system hang

- while connected remotely, if I run 'shutdown -r now' on the afflicted machine, I notice that the Desktop goes through a graceful shutdown -- the apps start closing one-by-one; and most interestingly, the mouse becomes responsive again!

- I've a gut feeling that video playback activity may be what causes the freeze. It appears to occur most often (after I've been playing a video from within a browser (e.g. youtube); I don't recall it having happened after I've played a video from a locally-stored file (e.g. VLC playing a .wmv or .avi) and I've played a lot of music via Rhythmbox since the last time it freezed. And have gone through dozens of suspend / resume cycles.

The afflicted Lucid system has been through a number of updates since my last post. Here's where it's now at:

Linux user1-desktop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux