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I just experienced a very similar problem - upgraded to lucid, white box, unresponsive.
ctrl-alt-1 to terminal, then `top` shows gnome-panel at 100% cpu.

I fixed it though :)

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If anyone else is getting this error:


pand[5575]: Connect to 00:FF:AA:AA:AA:A failed. Connection refused(111)

Try the following:


Right click on your bluetooth-manager and choose...

To address other points that have been made:

I did not try the ALT+SYSREQ+K combo to restart X, because i couldnt @#@#en remember it! :p I had to look it up now for this post - which i obviously...

I saw the warnings about some apps not losing little files due to frequent writes, about files being truncated.

I did not see any warnings that a lockup could cause it to mess up the filetable so...

a) Too bad, lots of people have to use propriety drivers because the OS drivers cant do things that they need (eg TV out, have decent 3D performance). Many people are willing to take the tradeoff for...

Im sorry guys, "dont do too much" is not really an accepable answer.

Its 2009. I should be able do more than one simultaneous transfer operation without lockups and large data corruption.

I realise the crash is what caused the problem. I am just warning people as to the magnitude of data loss a simple lock-up can cause.


I just reproduced the situation.....

In the background I...

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I have to put it somewhere to warn people.

I JUST SUFFERED MASSIVE DATA LOSS using the new ext4 filesystem in ubuntu!!

I'm not one for...

To make it a little eaiser, go into the folders with all the displays, right-click on a .display file and tell it to 'open with' and type in gdesklets.
Now you can just double click on any one of...

DISCLAIMER: this is my first HOWTO, so ill probably get a lot of the style wrong. I just had huge trouble finding information on this problem, and i thought i should pass it on now ive solved it.
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