{"id":621,"date":"2006-03-14T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/really-unstable-laptop-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T09:20:04","slug":"really-unstable-laptop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/really-unstable-laptop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"really unstable laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently getting hard crashes about five times a day.<\/p>\n

I thought it was the sound driver, as i got a crash during dist-upgrade (again) while on console and saw the backtrace. Basically looked like something bad happenned when the sound was muted.<\/p>\n

So, running without sound muted – just turned down.<\/p>\n

Well, today, just crashed again. Since running X, no backtrace. ARRRGHHH.<\/p>\n

Also crashed when waking up too. ACPI stuff in the backtrace.<\/p>\n

Not a happy camper at the moment. I have work to do, not futzing around with trying to find out what the fuck is wrong with my laptop (probably software) when I should be running a stable system.<\/p>\n

I’ve already have to re-add all my liferea RSS feeds as liferea obviously isn’t doing the right thing (at least the version shipping with Ubuntu) regards writing the feeds file to disk.<\/p>\n

So, I’m trying to prepare presentations for our DevConf on an incredibly buggy and almost unusable OpenOffice.org on an unstable laptop.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to have wine again with lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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