Since I seem to have come across the big boss version of this problem, I guess I should share some more info. So that last message spams syslog and kern.log, found via dmesg. Those logs are way too big for any human (or machine, for that matter) to parse any other information out of them so we can just assume it is strictly that one problem. Attached is /var/log/debug.
** Attachment added: "/var/log/debug from Dylan McCall's (possibly insane) laptop" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19475415/debug.log.tar.gz -- kernel 2.6.27-7-generic bug BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286285 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs