Is it just X11 freezing or do the virtual consoles stop responding to keyboard
input as well?
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Original Message
From: Phil Wyett
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 18:27
To: scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov
Reply To: philwyett.vende...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: help diagnosing cpu stall and frozen display
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 18:14 -0500, hansel wrote:
> My GUI freezes, along with the keyboard and mouse, rescue always has been
> via reset button. I am uncertain direction to take to sort this out.
>
> At least once when this occured, I could remotely access the box. Also
> during this same event, a CPU/memory hungry program I had begun on a
> virtual console completed successfully with complete and correct looking
> output. This seems important and suggest (to me) a problem with Desktop
> management (gnome-session).
>
> On the other hand, log files for today (2/3/15) report 52 CPU stalls
> ("self-detected stall...") in about 8 hours. Web discussions suggests this
> is related to kernel handling of the tsc register. Web discussion (and the
> tsc kernel route comments) also suggests that problems are solved (or at
> least managed).
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Hansel
Hi,
Could you indicate:
* Which version of SL you are running?
* Kernel you are running?
* Graphics hardware?
* CPU?
etc.
Regards
Phil
