Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-09 Thread Seb
On Sat, 7 May 2016 17:55:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote: >> May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO >> 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016 > Please update that BIOS. It is too old (and no, I am *not* joking). > Pe

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 May 2016, Seb wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2016 17:55:08 -0300, > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote: > >> May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO > >> 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016 > > > Please update that BIOS. It

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Seb
On Sat, 7 May 2016 17:55:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote: >> May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO >> 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016 > Please update that BIOS. It is too old (and no, I am *not* joking). A fe

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote: > May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO > 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016 Please update that BIOS. It is too old (and no, I am *not* joking). People, as a rule of thumb: if it has an Intel Skylake processor or newer (6th

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 08:14 -0500, Seb wrote: > Thank you both for these excellent pointers.  As I feared, it will be > a > long and tedious debug project.  I definitely won't dismiss hardware > support and configuration issues as you suggest, as it is a fairly > new > processor (i7-6700 @ 3.4 GHz)

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Seb
On Sat, 07 May 2016 10:57:18 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: [...] > So if you eliminate processor microcode, or other firmware issues, > then I'd look next at your graphics hardware and your desktop > environment. Contrary to your instincts, mine are that this most > likely _is_ a hardware issue of

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:43 PM Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:02 -0500, Seb wrote: > > For a few weeks, I'm experiencing complete system freezes that occur > > nearly every day and seemingly at random or not linked to any easily > > identifiable activity. This is a new system (

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:02 -0500, Seb wrote: > For a few weeks, I'm experiencing complete system freezes that occur > nearly every day and seemingly at random or not linked to any easily > identifiable activity.  This is a new system (Lenovo ThinkCentre > M800), Another thought: Is the intel-micr

Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:02 -0500, Seb wrote: > I suspect this will go up into the ether, but just in case someone > has > experience with this kind of bug, I'll try because even a tip on how > to > debug it and narrow down the problem would be helpful. > > For a few weeks, I'm experiencing comple

recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU

2016-05-06 Thread Seb
Hello, I suspect this will go up into the ether, but just in case someone has experience with this kind of bug, I'll try because even a tip on how to debug it and narrow down the problem would be helpful. For a few weeks, I'm experiencing complete system freezes that occur nearly every day and se