This is with Feisty not in Gusty like Donal (Bug reporter). After a few Oops I got that: Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710293] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#2! Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710315] [softlockup_tick+156/240] softlockup_tick+0x9c/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710333] [pdflush+0/512] pdflush+0x0/0x200 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710338] [update_process_times+51/128] update_process_times+0x33/0x80 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710349] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+112/128] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710358] [apic_timer_interrupt+40/48] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710369] [pdflush+0/512] pdflush+0x0/0x200 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710380] [_spin_lock+7/16] _spin_lock+0x7/0x10 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710390] [sync_supers+12/192] sync_supers+0xc/0xc0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710398] [wb_kupdate+36/240] wb_kupdate+0x24/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710412] [pdflush+294/512] pdflush+0x126/0x200 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710421] [wb_kupdate+0/240] wb_kupdate+0x0/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710431] [kthread+186/240] kthread+0xba/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710439] [kthread+0/240] kthread+0x0/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710447] [kernel_thread_helper+7/16] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Dec 19 06:09:02 mars kernel: [ 39.710457] ======================= Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714061] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714082] [softlockup_tick+156/240] softlockup_tick+0x9c/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714100] [update_process_times+51/128] update_process_times+0x33/0x80 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714112] [smp_apic_timer_interrupt+112/128] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714122] [apic_timer_interrupt+40/48] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714134] [_spin_lock+10/16] _spin_lock+0xa/0x10 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714141] [get_super+25/176] get_super+0x19/0xb0 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714149] [__invalidate_device+23/80] __invalidate_device+0x17/0x50 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714157] [check_disk_change+55/128] check_disk_change+0x37/0x80 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714159] [class_device_get+14/32] class_device_get+0xe/0x20 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714169] [] sd_open+0xaf/0x150 [sd_mod] Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714175] [exact_match+0/16] exact_match+0x0/0x10 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714181] [blkdev_open+0/112] blkdev_open+0x0/0x70 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714185] [do_open+123/656] do_open+0x7b/0x290 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714195] [blkdev_open+0/112] blkdev_open+0x0/0x70 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714199] [blkdev_open+48/112] blkdev_open+0x30/0x70 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714205] [__dentry_open+186/448] __dentry_open+0xba/0x1c0 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714215] [nameidata_to_filp+53/64] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714222] [do_filp_open+80/96] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714235] [do_sys_open+78/240] do_sys_open+0x4e/0xf0 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714243] [sys_open+28/32] sys_open+0x1c/0x20 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714248] [sysenter_past_esp+105/169] sysenter_past_esp+0x69/0xa9 Dec 19 06:09:03 mars kernel: [ 40.714260] =======================