Comment 5 for bug 975083

Thanks Bryce for your swift response. I'll try to answer your questions as best as possible:

1. The machine was running 11.10 before, but I completely wiped the root partition (I always do this due to bad past experiences with 'upgrades'). I never had any use for sync in the past, so I never tried.

2. Indeed, it was 11.10. Same machine. I did make a dd copy of the 11.10 root partition, so if it would be helpful I could restore that at some point.

3. Not always, no. The last time it happened I was busy filing a bug report on some other nasty things I ran into (12.04 has been a *very* bad experience on this machine so far)

4. Pfew... that's a hard one. It seems to happen quite randomly, although I do notice the system load is constantly between 0.5 and 1.5 (which, even on a quadcore i5, still seems quite high when just a couple of browser tabs and gedit are open). System monitor somehow is not showing what's causing this load, even when I show the processes of all users and sort by CPU %.

I will keep an eye on the system though and as soon as it happens again I will try to remember exactly what I was doing.

Perhaps I should keep a desktop recorder running... Do you happen to know any which would be suitable for this? GTKrecordmydesktop will probably not do since it encodes the video *after* the user has hit the 'stop' button.

5. Ok, I will install sshd on the machine and try to connect to it from my laptop when it freezes again. Problem is, last time it froze it also automatically rebooted after a few minutes. I hope that was a on-time quirk, otherwise I will have to move very fast.