Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:06:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > he problem is that the program hangs and the system will not > > recognized the keyboard, although, according to gKrellM the system is > > still operating. The only solution seems to be to reboot the system. > > The contents of /var/log/messages at the time of the hang will > definitely help to pinpoint the issue. > > And maybe the xorg.log, but it's non-trivial to extract something useful > from it - you have to wait for the hang, reboot, and locate > Xorg.0.log.old file. > > > > I have no idea what the cause may be or what a solution might be. > > Google is no help (al least, nothing that I can understand). > > A kernel panic or OOPS comes to mind first. That's very broad class of > the problem, to say the least, hence the need of kernel logs. > > Xorg hang is the second possible option. AMD hardware is somewhat > problematic here. > > Barring above - an overheat is the third possible scenario here.
It's also plausible that one or more disks are failing, or controllers. This can be exacerbated by high temperature. So: look in logs clean hardware, especially fans add airflow keep an SSH session open from another machine and see if you can poke at it after a "hang". -dsr-