Drew White:
> On Monday, 21 November 2016 14:31:10 UTC+11, Andrew  wrote:
>> Drew White:
>>> Still getting Dom0 crash / parts not responding. 
>>>
>>> Primarily it's a guest that causes the whole of Dom0 to slow and stop.
>>>
>>> I have yet to find out what the root cause it, but it's still locking 
>>> things up.
>>>
>>> Sometimes after running a guest for a few hours will cause the system to 
>>> start having a coronary.
>>>
>>> I'm not doing anything super intensive, only programming.
>>>
>>>
>>> IF I run ANY guest with Firefox, and have it running for a couple of days, 
>>> I come back from the weekend or sometimes even 1 night, and the PC is 
>>> locked up solid. At that point, not even the logging in Dom0 is working.
>>> Sometimes, as I have said before, the logging in Dom0 is still running and 
>>> working but I can't get access to the machine any more and have to 
>>> physically power it down to then start it up again. Which causes an fsck to 
>>> be run because the filesystem wasn't cleanly unmounted.
>>>
>>> Any help on these bugs would be greatly appreciated.
>>> Mainly I find the issue is with FireFox running. I've found other guests 
>>> running for days on end don't cause the system to lock up.
>>>
>>> If information for the developers is required, I would be happy to email 
>>> you the details, logs, and specs.
>>>
>>
>> Drew,
>>
>> Is there any chance you are using a recent (Braswell or maybe Broadwell
>> or similar) low-end Intel CPU?  If so, your problem may actually be due
>> to a bug in the Linux kernel.
>>
>> For example, I recently acquired just such a system and experienced
>> seemingly random total system freezes with Qubes 3.2 ranging anywhere
>> from 5m to 12h after boot.  What fixed the problem, or worked around it,
>> was:
>> -use the 4.8.* kernel in the unstable repository
>> -change the "i915.preliminary_hw_support=1" in the kernel boot command
>> line to "intel_idle.max_cstate=1", which limits the CPU to drawing the
>> maximum power :-\
>> -(may be unnecessary) disabling DRI in my dom0 Xorg.conf (I had to
>> create a new file):
>>     -"NoAccel" "true"
>>     -"DRI" "false"
>>
>> Let me know if you're affected by the same bug.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
> 
> I have no second CPU in the system at the moment. Not the extra RAM. That' 
> shwy it says there is a second, but there is none.
> 
> 
> I have no Xorg.conf anywhere on my system to alter or move and create a new.
> 
> 
> So you did EVERYTHING there at once?
> Or did you do one thing, check it, then try a different thing, check it, then 
> when they didn't work on their own you tried them in combination?
> 

It doesn't look like this is the same bug, but...

> I have no Xorg.conf anywhere on my system to alter or move and create
a new.

Yes, as I said, I had to create one.

> So you did EVERYTHING there at once?
> Or did you do one thing, check it, then try a different thing, check
it, then when they didn't work on their own you tried them in combination?

Originally I tried them piecemeal, but this is the only combination I
have found that works.  I have not tried without the Xorg.conf
modifications but with the other two, though.

Andrew

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