On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:23:45AM -0400, Chris Laprise wrote:
> On 7/9/19 11:38 PM, acunal.hamad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > What I am working with
> > 
> > Qubes 4 Current Stable (7/19)
> > x230 with coreboot
> > Reinstalled to a new SSD a month ago
> > 
> > The problem -- Resolved temporarily by restarting
> > 
> > Several times a week there are times that without warning, everything is 
> > still up on the screen and will to a limited degree work, but it is as if 
> > it were a veneer of functionality. When I try to read/write the filesystem, 
> > make terminal / dom0 commands apps will either crash or no action will 
> > come. During the shutdown screen the verbose text hangs on waiting. Ctrl 
> > Alt Del returns text informing me that it attempted to restart the machine 
> > immediately and failed.
> > If something hasn't been saved or otherwise won't gracefully accept the 
> > table-flip of using the power button this is particularly unfortunate.
> > 
> > Questions
> > 
> > Thoughts on what this might be or where to look?
> > Is there a vocabulary for this type of problem?
> 
> In my experience hanging is quite rare.
> 
> However, there are certain (bad) conditions that can bring it about. For
> example, if you mount external filesystems in dom0, and shut down the VM
> that supplies the backing storage for the filesystem before its un-mounted,
> then the system can become unresponsive in similar ways to what you
> reported. Its not hard to forget to cleanly un-mount a filesystem and close
> encryption, etc. before shutting down a storage VM.
> 
> There may be a different cause to your problem, but that is what came to
> mind when I read your post.
> 

No help from me.
I have a corebooted x230 - it's stable and always has been.
I havent tried Chris' method - I'll see if that triggers anything for
me.

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