two problems: problem 1

Aeterna · 03-28-2018, 11:48 AM

Hello,
Slackware current (last update today) 64bit, Plasma5, kernel 4.15.13 (Kernel: 4.15.13 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.3)

issue:
System randomly became unresponsive with HD LED on (disk access). No log errors.

The issue is not caused by the latest kernel version as tested with older kernels that worked before (til the end of February).

I wonder if I am the only one with this issue?

thank you

edited to correct error description.

willysr · 03-28-2018, 02:18 PM

So far, VBox worked fine with the current kernel (4.14.30).

Aeterna · 03-28-2018, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

So far, VBox worked fine with the current kernel (4.14.30).

Thank you so much,
Unfortunately I was to quick with the accusations. Each time when Slackware froze, I was running vbox.
However for the first time my laptop froze without anything extra running, so this seems to be a problem with my installation (as nobody else is complaining about similar issue).

aaazen · 03-28-2018, 02:42 PM

Be sure to check your system logs as it might be a hardware problem

/var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.

Aeterna · 03-28-2018, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aaazen

Be sure to check your system logs as it might be a hardware problem

/var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.

Thank you very much but as I mentioned in my first post, unfortunately I don't see any errors in the log files.

orbea · 03-28-2018, 05:34 PM

Try sshing in from a second system and then use 'dmesg -w'. Next time your system goes down hopefully dmesg will give you some useful errors.

Aeterna · 03-29-2018, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orbea

Try sshing in from a second system and then use 'dmesg -w'. Next time your system goes down hopefully dmesg will give you some useful errors.

Thank you,

I think that I have found the culprit. Since I removed intel-ucode from lilo, I did not experienced system freeze. Before deciding if this is real solution to the problem, I want to wait a bit and see what will happen.

ok: looks like unicode is not to blame as system freezes anyway.

It seems that I will have to reinstall slackware. My /home is on different partition so I will survive.