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I am currently investigating a possible kernel bug that may be causing this that was likely introduced with the 3.x kernels, because 2.6.x kernels seem to work ok.
Last edited by H_TeXMeX_H; 08-28-2013 at 03:45 AM.
In the meantime, what else can I do to get to the bottom of it and/or kill X without shutting down the computer?
Thank you.
EDIT: I managed to kill X with killall -9 X and startx remotely. Well, that's not a solution to the problem but at least I could shut it down properly before going to sleep.
You might also try to kill x with AltGr-SysRQ-r,AltGr-SysRQ-k.
Would it be an idea to update to current to check if that solves the freeze problem?
Just an update - not that I complain but I don't experience any freezes any more. I have not done anything to fix it. It just stopped freezing. The only difference is that when the freezes happened I worked a lot with gimp and inkscape. I don't anymore. Perhaps it was related to that.
I am currently investigating a possible kernel bug that may be causing this that was likely introduced with the 3.x kernels, because 2.6.x kernels seem to work ok.
Nevermind, it wasn't a bug in the kernel, it was just bad hardware.
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