Oneiric is freezing. Need help diagnosing and filing a bug
- by mlissner
Six months ago, I bought a new Sandy Bridge CPU and built myself a nice desktop machine. Until now it hasn't worked...at all. I finally have gotten it working now that Oneiric is released, but it freezes every so often, making it little more than a semi-functional temptation.
What happens when the system freezes is:
the music I have playing enters into about 5s loops.
SSH fails
the monitor freezes
the mouse freezes
the keyboard fails
The only way to fix it is to do a hard reset...and that sucks.
I'd love to at least figure out the source of the freeze so I can file a bug. I've looked in dmesg, kern.log, and the X.org logs. Nothing interesting is any of them.
Since SSH fails, I'm convinced it's not an X crash:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze
Anything else I can do?