Some time around when Spectre/Meltdown were announced, I started experiencing similar problems. I don't know "what's wrong" because so far I have found no answers.
The best I can offer at this point is that on my system, it seems that it will work with Nouveau drivers much better than the system currently works with NVIDIA drivers. Unfortunately, I haven't managed to get a working version of that yet, but I usually only manage to put a few hours a week on trying to figure it out. I fortunately haven't had the problem that I have to kill power to the computer, though I think I have gone through some times I have needed to reboot, rather than just get back into X either through killing processes, or (very rarely) stopping one problematic process which is the source. On 03/18/2018 09:40 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Gentlemen, we have a problem... > > Okay, ~ a week ago there was a power outage at my place, everything goes > down for a day or two. I had recently refreshed my UPS batteries, so I > had a chance to put that into the circuit, no biggy. > > Since nobody will offer me a job, I was playing Kerbal space program yet > again. (not even Don Corleone could get me a job at this point, I > frequently joke about the horse head trick but, seriously, I don't think > even that would work...) > > So, after all of two and a half days of uptime, nvidia drivers takes > x'-doze down. > > I was like "Ok, fine, I'll do a maintenance cycle on my machine and all > will be good..." > > So I update the bios, update the kernel, update portage, flush a few > dead packages down the memory hole... Ok, my system was in shape again... > > So, I'm back in kerbal, another day or two goes by, I'm sitting there > trying to figure out whether I have enough room in my departure corridor > to slot in a contract mission to Jool.. I wasn't even sitting down, just > poking around in my kitchen. When I got back, the game was frozen. I had > to log in with my PoS laptop which is useful only for this task. I found > that KSP, and X'doze were live-locked, presumably on a Nvidia-drivers > bug. =( I tried killing off KSP but it ended up going zombie... I tried > killing off parent processes, no luck, I then tried shutting down the > machine the normal way, no good. I eventually ended up going to the > dusty 28 year old power commander thing and throwing the big orange > switch labelled COMPUTER (complete and instantaneous removal of power). > > What's going on here? Nvidia drivers have been stable for years... > what's the deal? =\ > >
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