More on wireless w/suspend. I see that coming out of suspend wireless did not reconnect. I do not know if that is related to my failures, but it is something to watch for. Thanks for pointing the issue out to me.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com > wrote: > I have heard about that before, but I believe I had been using the machine > for a while immediately before the lockup, so I do not think the wireless > driver would have just started (or anything else associated with waking > after sleep). But I will keep the idea in mind if/when I have another > lockup. In the meantime I have run memory check (12 passes, no errors). > Next will be e2fsck--I did that already but I think I did not run it on the > main part of the drive. > > I did notice that upon booting after the forced shutdown there were a > number of lines of messages which appeared prior to the login dialog, but > were too brief to read. On normal boot, i.e., not following a forced > shutdown, two lines of messages appear. I took a video to capture what > they said: > lvmetad is not active yet, using direct action during system init. > /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: clean, 238556/753... files, ....(more > numbers) blocks. > > I will keep the video handy for the next incident to capture the messages. > > Need to have some routine to exercise the graphics to see if I can cause > the failure. If I cannot predict/reproduce the failure it seems that it > will be nearly impossible to pin down. > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > -Denis > > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Nat Taylor <biob...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you think it could have something to do with trying to go to sleep or >> and then having some sort of problem with the wifi driver? I've seen that >> and the solution is to have the wireless driver disabled before sleep? I >> think power management is always a good place to start looking when a >> laptop locks up. Upstart takes care of stuff while going to sleep on >> Ubuntu: >> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/441748/where-are-upstart-log-messages-on-ubuntu-13-x >> --- ^if you enable upstart log messages you'll get more detail >> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:13 PM, David <dafr+p...@dafr.us> wrote: >> >> > On 06/17/2016 04:45 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> > > I have had about 3 lockups on my new (used) Lenovo L420. The symptoms >> > are >> > > that the system freezes with no responses to either the mouse or the >> > > keyboard. >> > >> > <clip> >> > >> > I have an aging T61 that exhibited random lockup / reboot cycles as >> > well. I found that removing the generic nouveau video driver for the >> > proprietary nvidia driver resolved my issue. >> > >> > The other thing that happened with this was a reduction of memory usage, >> > a slightly cooler running machine, and a cessation of kernel panics. >> > >> > Your situation seems to be slightly different and logging in remotely >> > during a lockup, or better still before, from another system may glean >> > some useful information as I found that my log files simply didn't >> > contain anything useful. >> > >> > dafr >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
