Comment 5 for bug 252977

My experience is rather similar: the computer freezes at random ... one time it took a few hours, then three days. No log of the event is produced. However I cannot find the "Eeek!" message in the syslog ...

Sysinfo says:

SYSTEM INFORMATION
 Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) release.
 GNOME: 2.22.3 (Ubuntu 2008-07-09)
 Kernel version: 2.6.24-19-generic (#1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008)
 GCC: 4.2.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
 Xorg: unknown (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM) (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM)
 Hostname: plasma
 Uptime: 0 days 9 h 45 min

CPU INFORMATION
 GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 Number of CPUs: 4
 CPU clock currently at 2400.044 MHz with 4096 KB cache
 Numbering: family(6) model(15) stepping(11)
 Bogomips: 4803.52
 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

MEMORY INFORMATION
 Total memory: 3545 MB
 Total swap: 9538 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
 SCSI device - scsi0
  Vendor: ATA
  Model: Hitachi HDS72161
 SCSI device - scsi0
  Vendor: TSSTcorp
  Model: CDDVDW SH-S203D
 SCSI device - scsi1
  Vendor: ATA
  Model: Hitachi HDS72161

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
 Host bridge
  Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
  Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5000
 PCI bridge(s)
  Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 USB controller(s)
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])

GRAPHIC CARD

SOUND CARD
 Multimedia controller
  Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
  Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device a022

NETWORK

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
 Model name: GeForce 8600 GT
 Card Type: PCI-E
 Video RAM: unknown
 GPU Frequency: unknown
 Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008