Hi James, James Bottomley schreef op za 29-06-2019 om 11:56 [-0700]: > The symptoms are really weird: the screen image is locked in place. > The machine is still functional and if I log in over the network I can > do anything I like, including killing the X server and the display will > never alter. It also seems that the system is accepting keyboard input > because when it freezes I can cat information to a file (if the mouse > was over an xterm) and verify over the network the file contents. > Nothing unusual appears in dmesg when the lockup happens. > > The last kernel I booted successfully on the system was 5.0, so I'll > try compiling 5.1 to narrow down the changes.
Upgrading to 5.2 (from 5.1.y) on a "Dell XPS 13 9350" (is that a skylake too?) showed similar symptoms. There's no pattern to the freezes that I can see. They're rather frequent too (think every few minutes). Eg, two freezes while composing this message! My totally silly workaround is suspending (via Fn + Insert) and resuming. Did you manage to narrow this any further? Thanks, Paul Bolle
