On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11:33:01 AM UTC-4, unman wrote: > 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.
Chris: Thank you for your thoughts It just happened again less than an hour of up time while editing a plain text file. while trying to open a dom0 terminal "Failed to execute command "exp-open --launch TerminalEmulator" Failed to execute child process "exo-open" (Input/output error) logout verbose text screen "started account services Ctrl-alt-del pressed more than 7 times within 2s, rebooting immediately. watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop" Unman: About how old would you say your Coreboot flash is? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ed3a827a-ec67-42dc-870f-c138df46543b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
