Comment 122 for bug 585765

Could this have something to do with IRQ routing? I noticed on some other thread somebody saying that uninstalling the irqbalance daemon made the freezes go away. An IRQ routing problem might explain the randomness of the freezes, as everybody has different hardware on different IRQ's. If the kernel stops responding to some random interrupt the results would depend entirely on which hardware it belongs to and would seem random to the user.

I myself so far have had my USB mouse freeze a few times. Sometimes ten seconds after logging in, sometimes after many hours. Sometimes the keyboard still worked, and sometimes the entire system was frozen. This is on Lucid 64-bit.