[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#609877: system sometimes degenerates to an unusuable state

[Jorge Ramos]

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From: jorge <neyuru at gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <609877 at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: base: system sometimes degenerates to an unusuable state
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:29:30 -0600

Package: base
Followup-For: Bug #609877

This has also happen to me. It starts randomly when I try to open
(usually) a program but a file will also do. For example, trying to open
"add/remove applications", "software sources", "synaptic", "update
manager" does nothing or on occasions the mouse pointer tranforms to the
"debian-wheel" as if ready to run the program but after a few seconds
this wheel runs off and nothing happens. This sometimes is even
triggered by trying to open files that I do own (full permisions as
user) like files on my desktop with the same effect. If I keep running the
system at this state and "taunt" the system by clicking yet more programs
and files, the system eventually comes to  state that it no longer responds.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is the only way out of this and after restart, the
system is as good as new. I'm sorry that I do not post any logs as I am
clueless as to what might be trigering this. Any logs you guys want me
to send?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash