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Re: Sid random crash with no clue in log files

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Sébastien Kalt writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having random crashes on my ASUS PN50 mini PC : sometimes it's while  

[...]

> When it crashes, the system seems to be not responding, I can move the mouse,  
> but it doesn't click, and then the screen becomes blank. I need to shut down  
> the mini PC pushing the power button for a long time.

[...]

Hello,

common things to test in case of random crashes are hardware-related issues  
like cooling (CPU temperatures?), power supply and RAM (memtest86+).

Another thing to debug is: While the system is in the described crash state,  
you can still move the mouse -- this means some software on the system  
remains running despite not being accessible through GUI. An interesting  
step could be to attempt a login through SSH (install openssh-server if not  
already there to enable SSH access). From that SSH login you might be able  
to call a tool like `htop` to check the state of the system and stop any  
rouge processes etc.

I used to have similar types of crashes (the screen never went black, but  
the mouse cursor would move with any further inputs like klicks and key  
presses ignored) on a system with VirtualBox and the NVidia proprietary GPU  
driver (must have been Debian 7 or 8 IIRC). If either VirtualBox or NVidia  
graphics driver were uninstalled, it would never crash that way... In any  
case, logging in through SSH, I could see that the Xorg process was at 100%  
CPU. Killing it caused the screen to go black. Attempting to re-start would  
fail in some way, but afterwards a login from the local system would again  
be possible and the hard reset could be avoided...

HTH
Linux-Fan

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Sid random crash with no clue in log files Sébastien Kalt <skalt@throka.org> - 2020-10-28 16:20 +0100
  Re: Sid random crash with no clue in log files Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-10-28 16:40 +0100
  Re: Sid random crash with no clue in log files Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-28 17:00 +0100
  Re: Sid random crash with no clue in log files <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-28 18:10 +0100

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