Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-06-14 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Mon, 29 May 2023 11:54:07 +0100, Spencer Collyer wrote: > I managed to get netconsole working (had to wait until the long > weekend so I could replace my work machine with my old desktop) and > I've seen two lockups today, both referring to the nouveau driver. > Looking on the ArchWiki I found t

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-31 Thread riveravaldez
On 5/29/23, Spencer Collyer wrote: > I managed to get netconsole working (had to wait until the long weekend so > I > could replace my work machine with my old desktop) and I've seen two > lockups today, both referring to the nouveau driver. (...) Hi, I had some related issues a while ago, and th

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-29 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 6:18 PM Spencer Collyer < spen...@spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six weeks > after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it started > locking up randomly. I can't see anything obviou

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-29 Thread Spencer Collyer
I managed to get netconsole working (had to wait until the long weekend so I could replace my work machine with my old desktop) and I've seen two lockups today, both referring to the nouveau driver. Looking on the ArchWiki I found that there are known problems with this driver and some (unspecified

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-27 Thread riveravaldez
On 5/25/23, Spencer Collyer wrote: > Hi, > (...) > I'm hoping it's not a hardware fault - I'm not a hardware hacker. > Hopefully the fact it ran fine for six weeks means the hardware > shouldn't be the problem. > > Any further ideas gratefully received :) Hi, Spencer, have you looked for any vid

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-25 Thread Jeronimo Garcia
Also weird compositors like compton have caused hiccups like this On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:00 PM Jeronimo Garcia wrote: > Are you running something like barrier , or something that could interfere > with inputs like that ? x11vnc etc etc. > does dmesg say something ? every time i've had issues

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-25 Thread Jeronimo Garcia
Are you running something like barrier , or something that could interfere with inputs like that ? x11vnc etc etc. does dmesg say something ? every time i've had issues with something like this and i went the kernel route ended up being something silly like barrier acting up etc etc On Thu, May 25

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-25 Thread Matthew Blankenbeheler
I also have this issue. But, these issues didnt pop up till recently after an update. I have systemd-oomd configured so that should take care of any lockups due to a lack of ram. On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 7:43 AM Jesse Jaara wrote: > Could you simply be running out of RAM? 🤔 > Mouse cursor moving

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-25 Thread Jesse Jaara
Could you simply be running out of RAM? 🤔 Mouse cursor moving but system being otherwise unresponsive sounds a lot like a system that is running low on memory and is trying to move bits in and out of swap. A memory leak in some app you are using perhaps. Or possibly some Docker image or vm hogging

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-25 Thread Spencer Collyer
Hi, Thanks for all the ideas folks. I especially like Andy's idea of setting up netconsole - I've still got my old desktop machine available so will give it a go setting that up at the weekend. I'm hoping it's not a hardware fault - I'm not a hardware hacker. Hopefully the fact it ran fine for s

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-24 Thread Andy Pieters
On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < spen...@spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six weeks > after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it started > locking up randomly. I can't see anything obvious

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-24 Thread Matthew Blankenbeheler
I have also had these issues recently. Not sure what's causing it On Wed, May 24, 2023, 1:18 PM Abraham S.A.H. wrote: > Did you ever take a look at your system logs and perhaps coredumps? >

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-24 Thread Andy Pieters
> > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < > spen...@spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six >> weeks after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it >> started locking up randomly. I can't see any