How is one supposed to go about debugging these freezes? None of the comments on the bug appear to offer any insight into the actual cause, or offer much help in narrowing down the possibilities.
"Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
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Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#52Hmm, lots of anecdotes and complaining here. I've experienced no issues of the sort. Running perfectly smoothly here on 12.04, 64-bit. And I'm on a 4-year-old Pentium Dual Core machine, of all things.
I did not read through all of the posts, but it appears to be related to nVidia hardware. I'm guessing that you are not using an nVidia card. On a side note, I gave up nVidia hardware altogether (about 4 years ago) because of endless issues with Linux (and macs). This thread isn't encouraging.
I'm running 12.04 since November, I think, with a nvidia card. No issues, apart from nvidia drivers being crap ever since xserver 1.1
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#53Weird. I've been using 12.04 since it was in beta and it's been stable for me. The only problem I've had lately has been with flash videos chewing up too much CPU and causing things to get a little hot.
12.04 has been the single worst release ever for me (used Ubuntu since 2006). These include the Nvidia binary driver crashing, the open source Noveau driver losing the plot and drawing random content from the wrong windows, a 2 minute wait booting a laptop waiting for network, compiz move window making life hard but disabling is even worse, sound applet not showing up, repeatedly disabling my webcam microphone for no…
I've been having problems with nvidia drivers ever since xserver 1.1
The performance sucks and the gtkperf shows it
Running gtkperf on a laptop with a 943/940gml integrated graphics card Total time: 7.17
On a laptop with a nvidia 8400 card Total time: 9.08
eeepc 701sd Total time: 25.31
Nothing has changed, while 3D is decent, 2D drawing is a pain, just switching tabs in firefox makes you want to throw the damn thing out the window.
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#54Maybe this is me not paying attention much lately... How can a bug like this end up being specific to a distro? Aren't the distros effectively just different package managers, different init conventions, and maybe some system management sauce? The overwhelming majority of the operating system is just: kernel + modules, GNU, X, and a window manager, isn't it? So how can a bug like this be specific to Ubuntu?
I'm running 12.04/amd64 perfectly on i3 and i5 machines.
Considering the bewildering variety of hardware out there and all the testing manufacturers during the beta phase (no, just kidding - they do absolutely nothing to help) not that many people got hit by the bugs mentioned. It depends on a carefully aligned stack of bugs that's easily removed by changing one component.
Obviously, Ubuntu is not for some people. For all others, it works.
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#55I had a lot of issues when I upgraded to 11.04 which is why I'm avoiding upgrading to 12.04. From the looks of it, it seems like a wise decision
You can boot off a USB drive and play with it. If it works, keep it.
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#56I'm glad I have stuck with 11.10!
Don't be. Unless you use one of the hardware combinations that seem to be designed to be Linux proof (Sony Vaios, Nvidia GPUs), 12.04 works great.
I'm running 12.04 on a cheap Dell v131 and I'm very happy with it.
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#57Wanted to try out 12.04 (64bit) also. Downloaded Windows installer for Ubuntu (wubi or what it's called).
Everything seemed to work well but after every 15 minutes or so the computer freezes totally for few minutes... when trying to install something new even longer.
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#58Freezes Frequently is a terrible name for a ubuntu release. I'm waiting for the Incontinent Ibex release for things to sort themselves out....
Re: "Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"
#59Because nothing could make the signal to noise ratio on that bug report worse than posting it to a news aggregator. Thank you, SandB0x. I'm sure everyone on Ubuntu's XOrg team appreciates it.
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#60Good job on the LTS, Canonical. I don't understand why they don't make the release cycle longer. Perhap 9 months or a year, or even just one additional month for QA. I first started using Ubuntu, and Linux, when 9.04 came out and it was great. Since then the quality has steadily declined. 9.10 was good too, but ever since 10.04 every release has sucked. They can't even do LTS releases right. Sorry for ranting, but th…
LTS releases are supposed to do this. The six-month releases can be considered, for all intents and purposes related to stability, "testing" releases. The LTS releases are supposed to be stable enough for large-scale rollouts, with three years of desktop and five years of server support. In fact, Canonical upped the ante with 12.04--five years for both the desktop and server versions. Of course, plenty of things are…
LTS means one thing, and one thing only: That they will release security fixes for it for five years. It has nothing to do with stability and testing.