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Comment 193 for bug 585765

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John Bruno (jbalaska) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes

I've been fighting this bug (Seems there may be a couple of similar bugs, see my version below*)for a couple of weeks on 10.04.1 but not on 10.10.

I got fed up trying to fix it and booted to my 10.10 install, did the latest kernel update...And it started freezing my mouse!

Went back to my 10.04.1 partition and started digging through posts in this thread, and the ubuntuforums ones.

First I tried disabling irqbalance by editing /etc/default/irqbalance and set ENABLED=0
That did not work.

Then I added acpi_skip_timer_override nohz=off to my boot options, updated burg (grub) and on reboot, NO MORE FREEZING!

*To clarify, my mouse pointer would freeze at random times or just after login, plugging another usb mouse in would work for a time than freeze also, my KB would continue to work for a while, but would eventually stop responding.

My system:
MSI MB, AMD 9950BE, 4GB RAM, Ubuntu 10.04.1 and 10.10 both x86_64, Latest Ubuntu update generic kernels.