That sound very much like the problems I have on a thinkpad R50p since I installed Intrepid. The system is fully encrypted, hence I blamed cryptsetup until stumbling upon this report. Nearly daily the system freezes due to high load, cpu and harddisk-activity go nuts. Killing X stops whatever process gone wild. (If I can still manage to kill X). I was able to run top a few times when the incident occured but could not determine a specific application. In many cases one application or service (updatedb.mlocat and update-apt-xapi, sometimes some Java app with Sun's Java) was using up to 45/50% of the processor speed. Once the problem gets worse top freezes. The logs seem to contain no useful hints, either. Is any of the above reporters using compiz, by the way?
-- Xubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex - Sony Vaio PCG-V505BX freezes within 30 minutes or so https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300966 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
