Comment 105 for bug 743323

Same here. VLC suddenly crashes and the whole system freezes leaving the hard drive madly working. Finally I have cold-reboot the linux kernel. Ubuntu seems to own a magic power to make every application a hardware killer.

What if the user is not present and the bad status lasts ? 30 minute of such full load state could have physically damaged the hard disk, and Ubuntu would be the notorious hard-drive killer again.