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"Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"

66 points by SandB0x 14y ago

gouranga 14y ago
Did that for me as well. debian on the other hand works fine on the same hardware.
- keithpeter 14y ago
  Different kernel version I suppose.
  - pm90 14y ago
    Not really. I use Debian Lenny which by default comes with 2.6.x but I've manually compiled and installed the 3.2.9 kernel. Works flawlessly.
    - gouranga 14y ago
      Indeed. I tried arch as well which uses a late 3.x kernel and it worked fine. I reckon it's a patch somewhere. Ubuntu kernels are a right mess.
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keithpeter 14y ago
32bit; I had this for a while during testing but not with recent kernel versions (HP recycled workstation nvidia GT520 graphics), seeing similar on Debian Wheezy with same kernel numbers. I think we sometimes forget the OS is Gnu/Linux and the rest is packaging and customisation (nice though that is). 11.10 I had proper black screen kernel panics on the EeePC netbook, again only during testing. I might run a live session on 64bit and see what happens.
zmanji 14y ago
I can't tell if the problem was fixed by installing the vanilla kernel or reverting to an older Ubuntu kernel. Does anyone have ideas?
wissler 14y ago
I've also experienced locking problems in 12.04 that were very easy to recreate with a proprietary OpenGL-based program. We reverted back to 11.10 for now.
- sgt 14y ago
  Ubuntu releases are known to bring regression with them, that's just a fact.
  - dchest 14y ago
    As opposed to any other software which never bring regressions?
    - sgt 14y ago
      Different levels of regression. I have several Ubuntu using friends - completely normal users - who constantly need help because the Ubuntu upgrade broke. I did a 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade on a server the other day. It also broke. Completely standard with no software installed except for Apache. No modifications done whatsoever. Upon booting into 12.04, the screen just flickers. I looked at the log (from ssh) and it had to do with vesafb or something like that. I didn't bother investigating, and did a plain 12.04 install from ISO. Things like that, Canonical.
insertnickname 14y ago
Good job on the LTS, Canonical. I don't understand why they don't make the release cycle longer. Perhap 9 months or a year, or even just one additional month for QA. I first started using Ubuntu, and Linux, when 9.04 came out and it was great. Since then the quality has steadily declined. 9.10 was good too, but ever since 10.04 every release has sucked. They can't even do LTS releases right. Sorry for ranting, but the Ubuntu team seems to fuck up time after time. Perhaps they should try focus on making their system stable, instead of adding more crap.
- Kerrick 14y ago
  LTS releases are supposed to do this. The six-month releases can be considered, for all intents and purposes related to stability, "testing" releases. The LTS releases are supposed to be stable enough for large-scale rollouts, with three years of desktop and five years of server support. In fact, Canonical upped the ante with 12.04--five years for both the desktop and server versions. Of course, plenty of things are supposed to be.
  - saurik 14y ago
    If that were the case, then one would not expect any serious changes to be made in the actual final release from the one that precedes it, as the changes being tested by the six-month period get locked in as "this definitly worked". As that is obviously not the case, either the release process is flawed or your premise is incorrect. In fact, it seems more like the cycle is simply "don't make us support forever every single release", not "let's take a year and a half to test these changes before committing to them (which, to be clear, I'm fine with, although in practice it has meant that I always upgrade away from LTS anyway as it is often less stable, in a "will it lock up on me" sense, than the subsequent releases).
  - teilo 14y ago
    LTS means one thing, and one thing only: That they will release security fixes for it for five years. It has nothing to do with stability and testing.
- blahedo 14y ago
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wildster 14y ago
I'm glad I have stuck with 11.10!
- rbanffy 14y ago
  Don't be. Unless you use one of the hardware combinations that seem to be designed to be Linux proof (Sony Vaios, Nvidia GPUs), 12.04 works great. I'm running 12.04 on a cheap Dell v131 and I'm very happy with it.
ggordan 14y ago
I had a lot of issues when I upgraded to 11.04 which is why I'm avoiding upgrading to 12.04. From the looks of it, it seems like a wise decision
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago
  If you use an x.04 release, you're gonna have a bad time.
  - dysoco 14y ago
    It's like, x.10 should be LTS!
- vidarh 14y ago
  I went from 10.04 straight to 12.04, and frankly for the most part I couldn't be happier. Only caveat for me is that I'm one of the weirdos that preferred the Nautilus spatial mode, and that's gone.
- rbanffy 14y ago
  You can boot off a USB drive and play with it. If it works, keep it.
samsnelling 14y ago
Not going to lie, had to switch back to Win8CP because every time I plugged in an external monitor and changed the layout it completely froze up. :(
EternalFury 14y ago
Works fine here. As always, hardware support is tricky.
- marshray 14y ago
  Not only that, accelerated 3D video hardware is as tricky as it gets. Hats off to the open source developers who attempt it, often having to reverse engineer some of the most complex hardware known to man. Am I missing some context here? Why is a nouveau driver crash front page news?
  - cookiecaper 14y ago
    It's not a nouveau crash -- the bug report has reports from people using ATI OSS, nouveau, intel, and nvidia blob drivers (at least).
- oconnore 14y ago
  It works fine for me, too. I don't understand why anecdotes of problems are seen as interesting data points (for anyone other than the developers attempting to improve the software), especially in a community of technical people who presumably have some decent grasp on probability. This could be explained just by buggy hardware, or hard drive corruption, or any number of things. It's also not unique to Ubuntu. See also: 1. My iPhone 4S crashed randomly when I got it. 2. Google "windows 7 freezes randomly" -> 74,000 hits https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:answers.microsoft.com+windows+7+freezes+randomly&fp=57286d810c76d62b https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:answe...
Sodaware 14y ago
Weird. I've been using 12.04 since it was in beta and it's been stable for me. The only problem I've had lately has been with flash videos chewing up too much CPU and causing things to get a little hot.
- truncate 14y ago
  That is Adobe's problem. Canonical can't do much about it. Flash has always been sloppy on Linux for me.
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  12.04 has been the single worst release ever for me (used Ubuntu since 2006). These include the Nvidia binary driver crashing, the open source Noveau driver losing the plot and drawing random content from the wrong windows, a 2 minute wait booting a laptop waiting for network, compiz move window making life hard but disabling is even worse, sound applet not showing up, repeatedly disabling my webcam microphone for no reason, massive increase in power consumption and the list goes on.
  - pthread 14y ago
    I've been having problems with nvidia drivers ever since xserver 1.1 The performance sucks and the gtkperf shows it Running gtkperf on a laptop with a 943/940gml integrated graphics card Total time: 7.17 On a laptop with a nvidia 8400 card Total time: 9.08 eeepc 701sd Total time: 25.31 Nothing has changed, while 3D is decent, 2D drawing is a pain, just switching tabs in firefox makes you want to throw the damn thing out the window.
    - rogerbinns 14y ago
      The binary drivers or the nouveau ones? I've always used the binary ones, and Nvidia's driver quality has been why I've only bought Nvidia cards for many years. It has only been this release that caused me problems, and even then I finally solved them by downgrading the Nvidia driver version. I tried gtkperf to see what figures I get. I did note that the results depend on the size of the window quite a bit. On my workstation with an 8800GT I got 3.46 seconds at default window size and 4.08 at 1920x1200 (using mutter window manager). On my 5 year old laptop with Intel 965 graphics I got 7.30 seconds (using metacity). I switched to Chrome years ago and its tab switching is fine.
shortlived 14y ago
As EternalFury says, hardware support is tricky. Ultimately that is why I went back to windows, I couldn't deal with total system crashes in the middle of coding or demo'ing and maintaining a windows VM was just a band aid.
blhack 14y ago
Maybe this is me not paying attention much lately... How can a bug like this end up being specific to a distro? Aren't the distros effectively just different package managers, different init conventions, and maybe some system management sauce? The overwhelming majority of the operating system is just: kernel + modules, GNU, X, and a window manager, isn't it? So how can a bug like this be specific to Ubuntu?
- anothermachine 14y ago
  1. Downstream sometimes patches packages to solve problems. Patches can have bugs. 2. A bug may be triggered by the presence of two conflicting libraries or configuration settings that appear in the version sets chosen by a distro.
- grn 14y ago
  I can think of: chosen versions of programs and libraries and their interaction, default configuration, compilation options etc.
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- rcthompson 14y ago
  Every distro uses different kernel configs/versions as well as different versions of libc and other such core packages. If the crash is specific to a certain kernel config option that is only enabled in one distro, then the crash would be distro-specific.
- darkstalker 14y ago
  It's not just a collection of software, every distro patches the apps on their repositories in a different way
- rbanffy 14y ago
  I'm running 12.04/amd64 perfectly on i3 and i5 machines. Considering the bewildering variety of hardware out there and all the testing manufacturers during the beta phase (no, just kidding - they do absolutely nothing to help) not that many people got hit by the bugs mentioned. It depends on a carefully aligned stack of bugs that's easily removed by changing one component. Obviously, Ubuntu is not for some people. For all others, it works.
bifrost 14y ago
Death, by Ungabunga. Seriously, that really can sum it up. Linux has made a lot of inroads, but its nowhere near the stability of operating systems that spend their time "doing work" as their first priority.
- kvnn 14y ago
  Are you grouping operating systems into "linux" and "non-linux" categories, and asserting that the "linux" operating systems are nowhere near as stable? I'd strongly disagree with that.
  - bifrost 14y ago
    If you compare with Solaris, AS/400, OS/390, AIX, FreeBSD, HP/UX, and a few others - Linux loses bigtime in the uptime department. That doesn't make Linux less useful, it just hilites the maintenance required. People (MSFT mainly) use Windows to a high degree of success, they just reboot it a lot. I have a Linux system that needs to be rebooted every 3-4 days to maintain usability, I can't do anything about it because the system itself is essentially closed. I have a lot of customers who use Linux, the ones who don't have problems mostly run CentOS. The ubuntu users always seem to have problems, although I suspect thats usually due to it being developers running systems vs ops people. The ones who run every other Linux seem pointy headed enough not to screw themselves over. ProTip: If you break your box regularly, you are not a good sysadmin.
spinchange 14y ago
I found 11.04 & 11.10 to crash on my old Dell Vostro desktop constantly. Generally speaking, 12.04 has made it feel like a completely new computer.
- mike-cardwell 14y ago
  11.04 used to frequently crash for me too on my Thinkpad T420. I started building my own 3.0 kernels and that got rid of the crashing problem. I've had no such problems since I upgraded to 12.04 over a month ago. Works perfectly here.
xpaulbettsx 14y ago
This is anecdotal as well, but +1 for the freezing, Ubuntu 12.04 is unusable on my machine. Even when it's idle, it will last 12hrs at most before a hard hang, network is dead. I haven't tried to Update All The Things yet though, hoping that fixes it.
- xpaulbettsx 14y ago
  No dice. Still dead after < 12hrs of uptime.
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Hmm, lots of anecdotes and complaining here. I've experienced no issues of the sort. Running perfectly smoothly here on 12.04, 64-bit. And I'm on a 4-year-old Pentium Dual Core machine, of all things.
- signalsignal 14y ago
  Same here, but with an even older computer: AMD 64 4000+ with compiz turned off and running LXDE on the desktop. No issues so far and I haven't had any crashes at all.
- bstar77 14y ago
  I did not read through all of the posts, but it appears to be related to nVidia hardware. I'm guessing that you are not using an nVidia card. On a side note, I gave up nVidia hardware altogether (about 4 years ago) because of endless issues with Linux (and macs). This thread isn't encouraging.
  - pthread 14y ago
    I'm running 12.04 since November, I think, with a nvidia card. No issues, apart from nvidia drivers being crap ever since xserver 1.1
- Cymen 14y ago
  I have same experience with more recent i5 Dell. Suspend now works too!
orbitingpluto 14y ago
I made the mistake of importing Compiz settings that I was using in 10.04 and 11.04 in an attempt to make Ubuntu more usable. It made it completely unusable. KDE with nVidia's binary works for me. Everything with Gnome 2, 3 and Unity has been flickering whenever I move a window and window decorations like to disappear. Early adoption of LTS and LTS^ releases is never and increasingly a bad idea.
jl6 14y ago
How is one supposed to go about debugging these freezes? None of the comments on the bug appear to offer any insight into the actual cause, or offer much help in narrowing down the possibilities.
angry-hacker 14y ago
Wanted to try out 12.04 (64bit) also. Downloaded Windows installer for Ubuntu (wubi or what it's called). Everything seemed to work well but after every 15 minutes or so the computer freezes totally for few minutes... when trying to install something new even longer.
josephcooney 14y ago
Freezes Frequently is a terrible name for a ubuntu release. I'm waiting for the Incontinent Ibex release for things to sort themselves out....
krakensden 14y ago
Because nothing could make the signal to noise ratio on that bug report worse than posting it to a news aggregator. Thank you, SandB0x. I'm sure everyone on Ubuntu's XOrg team appreciates it.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago
  You make it sound as if it was posted to lipstick.com. HN mostly has very technical type of people who are well capable of debugging and eliminating issues. Reading the bug reports, I am pretty sure that the signal to noise issue will actually be better in commments from HN folks.
cherio 14y ago
There are SO MANY people affected by these freezes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/993187 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video... 12.04 release quality is the poorest since I got introduced to 8.04. First zenity problems, apd and synaptic is crashing several times a day, freezes that make you hard-reset the machine. It is overwhelming. I switched to XFCE (xubuntu) for now but otherwise mentally preparing myself for Fedora. So far no freezes with XFCE.

66 points by SandB0x 14y ago

gouranga 14y ago

Did that for me as well. debian on the other hand works fine on the same hardware.

keithpeter 14y ago
Different kernel version I suppose.
- pm90 14y ago
  Not really. I use Debian Lenny which by default comes with 2.6.x but I've manually compiled and installed the 3.2.9 kernel. Works flawlessly.
  - gouranga 14y ago
    Indeed. I tried arch as well which uses a late 3.x kernel and it worked fine. I reckon it's a patch somewhere. Ubuntu kernels are a right mess.

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keithpeter 14y ago

32bit; I had this for a while during testing but not with recent kernel versions (HP recycled workstation nvidia GT520 graphics), seeing similar on Debian Wheezy with same kernel numbers. I think we sometimes forget the OS is Gnu/Linux and the rest is packaging and customisation (nice though that is). 11.10 I had proper black screen kernel panics on the EeePC netbook, again only during testing. I might run a live session on 64bit and see what happens.

zmanji 14y ago

I can't tell if the problem was fixed by installing the vanilla kernel or reverting to an older Ubuntu kernel. Does anyone have ideas?

wissler 14y ago

I've also experienced locking problems in 12.04 that were very easy to recreate with a proprietary OpenGL-based program. We reverted back to 11.10 for now.

sgt 14y ago
Ubuntu releases are known to bring regression with them, that's just a fact.
- dchest 14y ago
  As opposed to any other software which never bring regressions?
  - sgt 14y ago
    Different levels of regression. I have several Ubuntu using friends - completely normal users - who constantly need help because the Ubuntu upgrade broke. I did a 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade on a server the other day. It also broke. Completely standard with no software installed except for Apache. No modifications done whatsoever. Upon booting into 12.04, the screen just flickers. I looked at the log (from ssh) and it had to do with vesafb or something like that. I didn't bother investigating, and did a plain 12.04 install from ISO. Things like that, Canonical.

insertnickname 14y ago

Good job on the LTS, Canonical. I don't understand why they don't make the release cycle longer. Perhap 9 months or a year, or even just one additional month for QA. I first started using Ubuntu, and Linux, when 9.04 came out and it was great. Since then the quality has steadily declined. 9.10 was good too, but ever since 10.04 every release has sucked. They can't even do LTS releases right. Sorry for ranting, but the Ubuntu team seems to fuck up time after time. Perhaps they should try focus on making their system stable, instead of adding more crap.

Kerrick 14y ago
LTS releases are supposed to do this. The six-month releases can be considered, for all intents and purposes related to stability, "testing" releases. The LTS releases are supposed to be stable enough for large-scale rollouts, with three years of desktop and five years of server support. In fact, Canonical upped the ante with 12.04--five years for both the desktop and server versions. Of course, plenty of things are supposed to be.
- saurik 14y ago
  If that were the case, then one would not expect any serious changes to be made in the actual final release from the one that precedes it, as the changes being tested by the six-month period get locked in as "this definitly worked". As that is obviously not the case, either the release process is flawed or your premise is incorrect. In fact, it seems more like the cycle is simply "don't make us support forever every single release", not "let's take a year and a half to test these changes before committing to them (which, to be clear, I'm fine with, although in practice it has meant that I always upgrade away from LTS anyway as it is often less stable, in a "will it lock up on me" sense, than the subsequent releases).
- teilo 14y ago
  LTS means one thing, and one thing only: That they will release security fixes for it for five years. It has nothing to do with stability and testing.
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wildster 14y ago

I'm glad I have stuck with 11.10!

rbanffy 14y ago
Don't be. Unless you use one of the hardware combinations that seem to be designed to be Linux proof (Sony Vaios, Nvidia GPUs), 12.04 works great. I'm running 12.04 on a cheap Dell v131 and I'm very happy with it.

ggordan 14y ago

I had a lot of issues when I upgraded to 11.04 which is why I'm avoiding upgrading to 12.04. From the looks of it, it seems like a wise decision

1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago
If you use an x.04 release, you're gonna have a bad time.
- dysoco 14y ago
  It's like, x.10 should be LTS!
vidarh 14y ago
I went from 10.04 straight to 12.04, and frankly for the most part I couldn't be happier. Only caveat for me is that I'm one of the weirdos that preferred the Nautilus spatial mode, and that's gone.
rbanffy 14y ago
You can boot off a USB drive and play with it. If it works, keep it.

samsnelling 14y ago

Not going to lie, had to switch back to Win8CP because every time I plugged in an external monitor and changed the layout it completely froze up. :(

EternalFury 14y ago

Works fine here. As always, hardware support is tricky.

marshray 14y ago
Not only that, accelerated 3D video hardware is as tricky as it gets. Hats off to the open source developers who attempt it, often having to reverse engineer some of the most complex hardware known to man. Am I missing some context here? Why is a nouveau driver crash front page news?
- cookiecaper 14y ago
  It's not a nouveau crash -- the bug report has reports from people using ATI OSS, nouveau, intel, and nvidia blob drivers (at least).
oconnore 14y ago
It works fine for me, too. I don't understand why anecdotes of problems are seen as interesting data points (for anyone other than the developers attempting to improve the software), especially in a community of technical people who presumably have some decent grasp on probability. This could be explained just by buggy hardware, or hard drive corruption, or any number of things. It's also not unique to Ubuntu. See also: 1. My iPhone 4S crashed randomly when I got it. 2. Google "windows 7 freezes randomly" -> 74,000 hits https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:answers.microsoft.com+windows+7+freezes+randomly&fp=57286d810c76d62b https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:answe...

Sodaware 14y ago

Weird. I've been using 12.04 since it was in beta and it's been stable for me. The only problem I've had lately has been with flash videos chewing up too much CPU and causing things to get a little hot.

truncate 14y ago
That is Adobe's problem. Canonical can't do much about it. Flash has always been sloppy on Linux for me.
rogerbinns 14y ago
12.04 has been the single worst release ever for me (used Ubuntu since 2006). These include the Nvidia binary driver crashing, the open source Noveau driver losing the plot and drawing random content from the wrong windows, a 2 minute wait booting a laptop waiting for network, compiz move window making life hard but disabling is even worse, sound applet not showing up, repeatedly disabling my webcam microphone for no reason, massive increase in power consumption and the list goes on.
- pthread 14y ago
  I've been having problems with nvidia drivers ever since xserver 1.1 The performance sucks and the gtkperf shows it Running gtkperf on a laptop with a 943/940gml integrated graphics card Total time: 7.17 On a laptop with a nvidia 8400 card Total time: 9.08 eeepc 701sd Total time: 25.31 Nothing has changed, while 3D is decent, 2D drawing is a pain, just switching tabs in firefox makes you want to throw the damn thing out the window.
  - rogerbinns 14y ago
    The binary drivers or the nouveau ones? I've always used the binary ones, and Nvidia's driver quality has been why I've only bought Nvidia cards for many years. It has only been this release that caused me problems, and even then I finally solved them by downgrading the Nvidia driver version. I tried gtkperf to see what figures I get. I did note that the results depend on the size of the window quite a bit. On my workstation with an 8800GT I got 3.46 seconds at default window size and 4.08 at 1920x1200 (using mutter window manager). On my 5 year old laptop with Intel 965 graphics I got 7.30 seconds (using metacity). I switched to Chrome years ago and its tab switching is fine.

shortlived 14y ago

As EternalFury says, hardware support is tricky. Ultimately that is why I went back to windows, I couldn't deal with total system crashes in the middle of coding or demo'ing and maintaining a windows VM was just a band aid.

blhack 14y ago

Maybe this is me not paying attention much lately... How can a bug like this end up being specific to a distro? Aren't the distros effectively just different package managers, different init conventions, and maybe some system management sauce? The overwhelming majority of the operating system is just: kernel + modules, GNU, X, and a window manager, isn't it? So how can a bug like this be specific to Ubuntu?

anothermachine 14y ago
1. Downstream sometimes patches packages to solve problems. Patches can have bugs. 2. A bug may be triggered by the presence of two conflicting libraries or configuration settings that appear in the version sets chosen by a distro.
grn 14y ago
I can think of: chosen versions of programs and libraries and their interaction, default configuration, compilation options etc.
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rcthompson 14y ago
Every distro uses different kernel configs/versions as well as different versions of libc and other such core packages. If the crash is specific to a certain kernel config option that is only enabled in one distro, then the crash would be distro-specific.
darkstalker 14y ago
It's not just a collection of software, every distro patches the apps on their repositories in a different way
rbanffy 14y ago
I'm running 12.04/amd64 perfectly on i3 and i5 machines. Considering the bewildering variety of hardware out there and all the testing manufacturers during the beta phase (no, just kidding - they do absolutely nothing to help) not that many people got hit by the bugs mentioned. It depends on a carefully aligned stack of bugs that's easily removed by changing one component. Obviously, Ubuntu is not for some people. For all others, it works.

bifrost 14y ago

Death, by Ungabunga. Seriously, that really can sum it up. Linux has made a lot of inroads, but its nowhere near the stability of operating systems that spend their time "doing work" as their first priority.

kvnn 14y ago
Are you grouping operating systems into "linux" and "non-linux" categories, and asserting that the "linux" operating systems are nowhere near as stable? I'd strongly disagree with that.
- bifrost 14y ago
  If you compare with Solaris, AS/400, OS/390, AIX, FreeBSD, HP/UX, and a few others - Linux loses bigtime in the uptime department. That doesn't make Linux less useful, it just hilites the maintenance required. People (MSFT mainly) use Windows to a high degree of success, they just reboot it a lot. I have a Linux system that needs to be rebooted every 3-4 days to maintain usability, I can't do anything about it because the system itself is essentially closed. I have a lot of customers who use Linux, the ones who don't have problems mostly run CentOS. The ubuntu users always seem to have problems, although I suspect thats usually due to it being developers running systems vs ops people. The ones who run every other Linux seem pointy headed enough not to screw themselves over. ProTip: If you break your box regularly, you are not a good sysadmin.

spinchange 14y ago

I found 11.04 & 11.10 to crash on my old Dell Vostro desktop constantly. Generally speaking, 12.04 has made it feel like a completely new computer.

mike-cardwell 14y ago
11.04 used to frequently crash for me too on my Thinkpad T420. I started building my own 3.0 kernels and that got rid of the crashing problem. I've had no such problems since I upgraded to 12.04 over a month ago. Works perfectly here.

xpaulbettsx 14y ago

This is anecdotal as well, but +1 for the freezing, Ubuntu 12.04 is unusable on my machine. Even when it's idle, it will last 12hrs at most before a hard hang, network is dead. I haven't tried to Update All The Things yet though, hoping that fixes it.

xpaulbettsx 14y ago
No dice. Still dead after < 12hrs of uptime.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

Hmm, lots of anecdotes and complaining here. I've experienced no issues of the sort. Running perfectly smoothly here on 12.04, 64-bit. And I'm on a 4-year-old Pentium Dual Core machine, of all things.

signalsignal 14y ago
Same here, but with an even older computer: AMD 64 4000+ with compiz turned off and running LXDE on the desktop. No issues so far and I haven't had any crashes at all.
bstar77 14y ago
I did not read through all of the posts, but it appears to be related to nVidia hardware. I'm guessing that you are not using an nVidia card. On a side note, I gave up nVidia hardware altogether (about 4 years ago) because of endless issues with Linux (and macs). This thread isn't encouraging.
- pthread 14y ago
  I'm running 12.04 since November, I think, with a nvidia card. No issues, apart from nvidia drivers being crap ever since xserver 1.1
Cymen 14y ago
I have same experience with more recent i5 Dell. Suspend now works too!

orbitingpluto 14y ago

I made the mistake of importing Compiz settings that I was using in 10.04 and 11.04 in an attempt to make Ubuntu more usable. It made it completely unusable. KDE with nVidia's binary works for me. Everything with Gnome 2, 3 and Unity has been flickering whenever I move a window and window decorations like to disappear. Early adoption of LTS and LTS^ releases is never and increasingly a bad idea.

jl6 14y ago

How is one supposed to go about debugging these freezes? None of the comments on the bug appear to offer any insight into the actual cause, or offer much help in narrowing down the possibilities.

angry-hacker 14y ago

Wanted to try out 12.04 (64bit) also. Downloaded Windows installer for Ubuntu (wubi or what it's called). Everything seemed to work well but after every 15 minutes or so the computer freezes totally for few minutes... when trying to install something new even longer.

josephcooney 14y ago

Freezes Frequently is a terrible name for a ubuntu release. I'm waiting for the Incontinent Ibex release for things to sort themselves out....

krakensden 14y ago

Because nothing could make the signal to noise ratio on that bug report worse than posting it to a news aggregator. Thank you, SandB0x. I'm sure everyone on Ubuntu's XOrg team appreciates it.

recoiledsnake 14y ago
You make it sound as if it was posted to lipstick.com. HN mostly has very technical type of people who are well capable of debugging and eliminating issues. Reading the bug reports, I am pretty sure that the signal to noise issue will actually be better in commments from HN folks.

cherio 14y ago

There are SO MANY people affected by these freezes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/993187 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video... 12.04 release quality is the poorest since I got introduced to 8.04. First zenity problems, apd and synaptic is crashing several times a day, freezes that make you hard-reset the machine. It is overwhelming. I switched to XFCE (xubuntu) for now but otherwise mentally preparing myself for Fedora. So far no freezes with XFCE.