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Bug report number for "causes random lockups"

Bug report number for "causes random lockups"

Posted Jun 30, 2008 12:16 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Bug report number for "causes random lockups" by tajyrink
Parent article: The first Ubuntu "Intrepid" alpha release

I agree that the Ubuntu kernel developers need some more resource.  I struggled for quite a
long time with a different freeze problem on Gutsy and Hardy kernels (2.6.22 and 2.6.24) which
involved a "nobody cared" message on a shared IRQ, followed by a lockup of the devices using
that IRQ.  I bypassed this by the kernel boot parameters "all_generic_ide irqpoll" which
doesn't seem to have hit performance noticeably, but it wasted quite a lot of time when I was
setting up a new PC built specifically for Ubuntu.

Also, suspend/hibernate took some time to get working, but that's due to lack of a really good
configuration wizard that will figure out the various options required to make it work.  And
it's broken again for some reason that I can't figure out...  

I really like Ubuntu but I hope that stability and bug-fixing can be given more attention over
new features.  I don't really need new features but would like a few things to work better.


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