I had something like this too, in Debian (etch). In my case it was a string of USB disconnect/reconnects, related to either the mouse or the keyboard. /var/log/messages turned up hundereds of messages about this, eventually it would run out of new device numbers to assign to the "new" USB device (keyboard or mouse) and everything would lock up. Yes, when Firefox was running, but I think I reproduced it in Ubuntu 8.04 when no browser at all was running. Upgraded to Debian Lenny some weeks ago, and still had the USB disconnect/reconnect problem although I think I managed to avoid the total-lockup problem --possibly only because we rebooted several times due to power failures & etc. Now running PS2 keyboard here, resulting in no more USB disconnect/reconnect messages in /var/log/messages and no more lockups since then. Running mouse plugged into the laptop running Ubuntu (8.04 hardy) now results in the same USB disconnect/reconnect messages, although it has not locked up yet. But I haven't used it much lately, either. I did notice the other day that it was running a little hot --maybe because it never had a chance to suspend, because of this disconnect/reconnect thing that's constantly happening. What did /var/log/messages report? Liz J 2009/2/21 Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu>:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:35:14AM -0500, Walt wrote:
I have been experiencing freezes with Fedora 10. For no apparent reason, the machine just stops. No mouse, no keyboard (no ctrl alt F1 or ctrl alt del). I can only reboot with the on-off switch. Any ideas as to what I can check? Thanks! Walt
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