On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Paul Reiber <rei...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I had another hang quite similar to the previous one. > [...] > > Here's the only correlation I can think of: In both cases I had moved > the mouse, to interrupt the screensaver, when it locked up. > > So I'm wondering if this has something to do with the logic that > breaks whichever screensaver is running.
This happened again today; I have 100% correlation now for this hang being related to moving the mouse to exit the screensaver. This is a pretty standard 9.04 install on a pretty standard Dell Latitude E6500 notebook computer. I had the matrix screensaver running, and came back to my desk after being away for maybe 5 minutes, and moved the mouse. Instead of popping up a "password" dialog box, the computer locked up solid, with a frozen matrix image onscreen. I did notice the hard-disk light blipping approx. every 4-5 seconds; this is something it tends to do when I have VirtualBox running, and it continued to blip even after the machine had locked up solid. But other than that the machine really was hosed; no Ctrl-alt-F1, no Ctrl-alt-Backspace, no wifi light lighting if I flipped the wireless killswitch to "on"... no suspend by hitting Fn-F1 (the moon icon)... nothing. Oh... it DID let me change the screen brightness with the Fn-uparrow and Fn--downarrow keys, and it DID adjust the brightness down when I undocked it, and back up when I re-docked it. I'm guessing none of that involves the kernel. Holding down the power button for like 10 seconds was the final solution. Yuck. I'll be happy to answer any further questions. I'm going to upgrade to 9.10 sometime next week, so if you want me to assist by running any tests or diagnostics please let me know ASAP. Here's hoping this helps. -Paul -- Dell Latitude E6500 freezes when put on docking station https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410285 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
