Heyo,
It seems like every so often (once a week or two) my computer freezes up. It's happened a fair few times in total now, and it seems to be a mostly visual issue. Audio still plays, but the screens are completely frozen. I can ssh in (which I have done), and from that, it seems to be an Xorg issue.
Unfortunately, restarting lightdm doesn't seem to work, neither does systemctl reboot. Even though the ssh session terminates, the my screesn stay displaying the frozen picture. The only thing that seems to work is a hard power cycle, which isn't good.
╰> ssh tranquillity
Last login: Wed Jan 15 11:09:52 2020 from 130.95.254.203
╭─ tec@tranquillity ~ 12:10
╰> htop
╭─ tec@tranquillity ~ 37.39 12:11
╰> ps -aux | grep "xorg"
root 1008 1.2 2.4 826124 395948 tty7 Rsl+ Jan11 82:59 /usr/lib64/xorg-server/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
tec 29779 0.0 0.0 3388 876 pts/3 S+ 12:11 0:00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn xorg
╭─ tec@tranquillity ~ 0.03 12:11
╰> sudo systemctl restart lightdm
Password:
^C
╭─ tec@tranquillity ~ SIGINT(2) ↵ 16.20 12:12
╰> sudo systemctl status lightdm
* lightdm.service - Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: deactivating (stop-sigterm) since Thu 2020-01-16 12:12:24 AWST; 15s ago
Main PID: 978 (lightdm)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 19.5M
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
`-978 /usr/sbin/lightdm
Jan 15 19:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 15 20:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 15 21:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 15 22:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 15 23:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 16 00:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 16 01:03:00 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 16 10:41:23 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 16 11:36:56 tranquillity gnome-keyring-daemon[1162]: asked to register item /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/2, but it's already registered
Jan 16 12:12:24 tranquillity systemd[1]: Stopping Display Manager...
╭─ tec@tranquillity ~ 3 ↵ 0.27 12:12
╰> sudo systemctl reboot
Connection to 180.150.91.8 closed by remote host.
Connection to 180.150.91.8 closed.
╭─ ~ SIG(127) ↵ 03:07 12:13
╰> ssh tranquillity
ssh: connect to host tranquillity port 8579: Connection refusedI am running
- Linux 5.4.8-141 (just updated to
- AMD 1700x
- GTX 980ti, with Nvidia driver