I did something somewhat boneheaded on my (k)ubuntu box. Last night I tried playing a movie through mplayer as root off my external USB hard drive. I did this because one of the directories didn't have executable permissions for anything but root, so I couldn't casually go to the contents in the other directories there. But the problem was that out of laziness, I just decided to use my root account to view a movie. Root not only couldn't open up the file, but it went into an infinite loop that i couldn't kill.
I totally forgot about that situation, tried going to sleep (failed), and woke up intending to watch youtube. Then youtube started freezing as did other video sites. And then I tried playing other video files. Originally, I was going to blog that the problem was the nvidia driver, but I realized/remembered (faintly) that mplayer had bogged down and probably was still running. I rebooted my machine to clear the problem and now everything is working again.
The worst part was that I spent several sleepy/waking hours trying to figure out what the hell was going on. What a waste of time!!!!
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