Lockups

[gord campbell]

One can never be certain about possible hardware issues. There could
always be a hardware problem which didn't affect Ubuntu 10.10, Mint 12
or Mint 13, but Ubuntu 12.10 runs afoul of it. It seems like a long
shot.

My system: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P motherboard, Phenom II X2 550 CPU, 4
GB of 1333 MHz memory (2 sticks of 2 GB), MSI 9400 GT video, WD Black
640 GB SATA hard drive, IDE DVD-writer, SBx00 Azalia sound onboard,
AR2413/AR2414 PCI Wireless Network Adapter.

Here's something odd: sudo lshw -html put this in red:
id:	        serial
description: 	SMBus
product: 	SBx00 SMBus Controller
vendor: 	Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 	14
bus info: 	pci at 0000:00:14.0
version: 	3c
width: 	32 bits
clock: 	66MHz
capabilities: 	ht cap_list
configuration:	latency	=	0

When I run my Conky script to display temperatures (39, 37, 59 are
typical for CPU, hard drive and video card) it locks up in 30 to 90
minutes. When I don't run Conky, I have only seen one lockup, and I have
run for 14 hours a few times. (My Evolution email is only installed in
Mint 13, so I need to reboot into it....)

I built the system in the summer of 2009, and it still qualifies as a
"high performance" computer, especially compared to some of the dreck
people try to run Ubuntu on. I use Cinelerra for video editing, and I'm
completely satisfied with the performance of the hardware and software.

BTW, I think I have found the solution to the "nvidia current" problem,
but I have not tried it.



On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:03 +0000, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
> > It runs OK until I install Nvidia Current. Oh, except for the
> random,
> > total system lockups, which are absolutely not caused by hardware or
> > overheating. I dual boot Mint 13 (64-bit with Cinnamon) and Mint has
> > never crashed in the five months it has been installed. Nor did
> Ubuntu
> > 10.10 before it.
> 
> Are you sure those are really not from hardware issues? Lockups are
> very unfrequently caused by software (unless of course it's unstable
> kernel drivers).
> 
> I'd be interested to know about it. What drivers or applications could
> be causing these lockups? Please try to file a bug in Launchpad if you
> can figure out what's breaking :)