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[Morgan Gangwere <585765@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had this problem and I've reliably strace'd the offending thread
(usually via SSH).

It seems to be locked on the general pattern of an futex with a NULL timeout:
futex( ... , FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, NULL , ... , 

Backtracing the process shows from gdb:
0: __kernel_vsyscall ()
1: ?? () in libc6.so.6
Backtrace stopped: Corrupt stack.

I've been able to stroke the bug by compiling Enlightenment (DR17) with
the Eweather module, setting its provider to "google", clicking "apply"
and then "close". This will lock the system fairly reliably.

It seems that if init gets this futex call down the line, it will
/stall/ the system.

I suspected it was bad RAM, so I ran Memtest86 and it came up with bad
RAM at first, so I swapped out and I'm now running on 256MB of RAM (max
on this box is 385MB) and the bug still persists, so RAM corruption is
not something thats happening on hardware.

I will see if installing the 2.6.32.11 kernel helps -- Currently I'm on
a 2.6.32-15 compiled for SMP and Preemptive and optimized for Coppermine
chips (Pentium 3 M here)

<sarcasm> 5 years of this, is going to be a little insane.</sarcasm>

Booooooooooggggg.

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Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
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