Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> Occaisonally my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Desktop PC will freeze for no
> apparant reason. There does not seem to be a pattern to it. What will
> normally happen is that the window/app I am working in will turn grey
> as if taking a long time to respond. During this time the Desktop will
> not accept any input from me and I can even see the system monitor
> graph freeze up in the taskbar.
>
Does it recover by itself Imran?
If so, all of the Gutsy machines here* display similar behaviour when
they are having a 'think' under load, especially if a given application
is struggling. This is peculiar to Gutsy in my experience, and I have
always taken it to signify a temporary state while the machine recovers
from a particular program hogging the available resources. Of course, I
may have got that completely wrong!
> There is nothing obvious imprinted in /var/log at the times these
> happen. I suspect something low-level perhaps in the SATA HDD being
> faulty. I once fixed a Windows XP laptop which responded like treacle,
> that turned out to be a HDD needed replacement. The PC is an Asus
> Pundit machine that I somewhat unwisely bought from an eBay seller
> outside the normal eBay channels, to my custom spec. It arrived with
> signs of use despite the seller claiming brand-new.
>
You're brave!
> The lshw can be found here: http://pastebin.com/m250b9ef6
Sean
* 3 desktops, 1 laptop, all fairly new and reasonably well-specified
