I traced my problem to having bad sectors on an NTFS partition made slocate cause the total system freeze. My problem went away after booting to XP and running chkdsk to fix the NTFS errors. Another way to fix this is to add the NTFS mount path to the PRUNEPATH variable in /etc/updatedb.conf. This way slocate will never scan the NTFS folder. This problem might not be what's causing all the freezes reported in this bug, but I thought I'd share my findings in case it helps someone in the same boat as I am.
-- Xorg process freezes, uses 100% of CPU. Can be killed by remote terminal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51991 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
