After being directed to this bug, I unplugged my TV tuner card just to make sure that its saa7134 and nothing else. I am glad to report that it was indeed the case. Or at least in my case it was this TV tuner card that was causing all the subsequent failures and crashes.
-- 2.6.24-15-generic: saa7134-alsa makes HAL to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212271 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