Ultimate Edition Forum

Hello, all. First and foremost, I want to thank TheeMahn for his hard work and dedication to bring us all the Ultimate Edition. I have been using Linux for around 10 years now, and I think I have finally found myself a home. I decided to switch from Fedora to Ubuntu about 3 months ago, and ran into Ultimate Edition 2.5 while I was downloading the vanilla Ubuntu 9.10 installation image. I opted to try Ultimate Edition instead and it seems to have been the best decision of my computing life! Thanks again for all the time and effort put into the distro and the forums. This is a great, informative community.

Since my switch to Ultimate Edition, I have had one recurring issue that I have not been able to resolve myself and I have not found any kind of solution for on-line (although I see that I am not alone with the issue). Intermittently, when I log into my user account, Xorg races a single core on my CPU. If I let it sit, the CPU never stops racing. Logging out and back in will fix it. Sometimes it must be done twice (or even three times) before the CPU calms down. It will often happen again if I log out and back in.

So far, this seems to be a problem with both the repo nVidia drivers and drivers from nVidia's website. I have not seen anything in the Xorg logs that indicates any trouble. I have uninstalled compiz, but the problem persists. But since there is a work around (log out and log in until the problem stops), it has not been a priority.

Let me know if you have any ideas or if more information would be helpful.
Some system specs that might be relevant:

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
   Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) release.
   GNOME: 2.28.1 (Ubuntu 2009-11-03)
   Kernel version: 2.6.31-19-generic (#56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010)
   GCC: 4.4.1 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
   Xorg: unknown (14 November 2009  05:48:57PM)
   Hostname: axe
   Uptime: 5 days 12 h 10 min

CPU INFORMATION
   GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TheeMahn)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz
   Number of CPUs: 2
   CPU clock currently at 1600.000 MHz with 2048 KB cache
   Numbering: family(6) model(15) stepping(2)
   Bogomips: 4256.35
   Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht TheeMahn pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow

MEMORY INFORMATION
   Total memory: 2008 MB
   Total swap: 4598 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
   SCSI device -  scsi0
      Vendor:  ATA     
      Model:  SAMSUNG SP1614C 
   SCSI device -  scsi1
      Vendor:  ATA     
      Model:  ST3250620AS     
   SCSI device -  scsi2
      Vendor:  ATA     
      Model:  Hitachi HDT72101
   SCSI device -  scsi4
      Vendor:  ATA     
      Model:  WDC WD5000AAJS-0

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
   Host bridge
      Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
      Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1073
   PCI bridge(s)
      Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) (prog-if 01)
   USB controller(s)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
      Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
   ISA bridge
      Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
      Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller
   IDE interface
      JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
      Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device f100

GRAPHIC CARD
   VGA controller
      nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
      Subsystem: Device 19f1:0765

SOUND CARD
   Multimedia controller
      C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
      Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738

NETWORK
   Ethernet controller
      Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
      Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1073

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
   Model name: GeForce 9600 GT
   Card Type: PCI-E 16x
   Video RAM: 512 MB
   GPU Frequency: 675 MHz
   Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  190.53  Wed Dec  9 15:29:46 PST 2009

You might look at this..
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/309776

Or here.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/439138

Have you up updated yet?Open synaptics and under repositories check the two repos that aren't checked,and update.


Might help,might not.The bug says its fixed at the top of the page tho.


Cell

Funny, it's always the simple stuff. When the problem was first encountered, I had applied updates often but none of them addressed the issue. Now that you reminded me and I have completed the updates, I am no longer experiencing the problem. Thanks!

Cool....this is why this Distro is #1
cell had it on the numbers...