Comment 5 for bug 159398
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| Ed Arnold (era-ucar) wrote Re: System randomly freezes / locks up | #5 |
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I've got what appears to be the same problem. The system in question is a Dell D810 laptop, approx. 2.5 years old, on which a fresh install of ubuntu 7.10 was done shortly after it was released. I'll be working along and suddenly ... nothing. Well, almost nothing: I can still move the cursor around, but the system won't respond at all to clicking on anything usually clickable, and it won't respond to anything typed on the keyboard. For instance, I've tried typing CTL+ALT+DEL and CTL+ALT+F1 after lockup, but there's no response.
Note that this system is dual-boot. It runs Windows XP flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as WIndows ever runs :)) and has been doing so since I got it. So, I have no reason to believe the D810 has a hardware problem.
If anyone has instructions on how to (if it is possible) force a kernel core dump, let me know. Otherwise, I'm going to have to downgrade to ubuntu 7.04 so I can actually do work on this system; or (horrors) go back to Windows.