Comment 22 for bug 908335

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Danny Goodall (danny-onebloke) wrote :

@Chucktr I can leave my Ubuntu 11.10 machine to boot while in the docking station and when I come back to it (3-20 minutes later) the system will have hung at the login password prompt. This is repeatable 99.9% of the time. If I log in straight away then I will either get <3 minutes use (90+% of the time) or I will be able to use it for 30-180 minutes before it hangs - but it always hangs.

If I boot out of the docking station then 11.10 runs wonderfully with zero hangs. As for the cursor, which I'm not sure is important in my case, it is either a vertical bar or has completely disappeared by the time it hangs.

Also my system hangs completely. No movable mouse cursor, no keyboard response (ALT+Fn) and no led status light activity. The screen is left as it was when it hung and it requires a hard reset to turn off.

Dell Latitude E6400, latest BIOS A31, NVIDIA drivers (295.20), twin monitors while docked, Ubuntu 11.10, kernel 3.0.0.12-16 (also tried kernel 3.2.1 as described above)

I'm not familiar with the process for triaging and fixing problems like this. Is this the right place to post this stuff? If so why is it apparently being ignored. If not can someone please direct me to the right channel for reporting issues with Ubuntu like this?

Many thanks.