[TriLUG] Strange lockups on Fedora

[Matt Pusateri via TriLUG]

Yes, I’ve seen this happen with the New Firefox as well on F27.  Either updates to FF or updates to F27 fixed it for me.

Matt P.

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Nathan Yinger via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> Got home from work and it was locked up again. Oddly, the mouse cursor
> still moved, nothing else updated on the screen. The clock showed 13:24, so
> it had been frozen for a few hours. After killing Xorg, the mouse cursor no
> longer moved.
> 
> Looking in top, I saw that the largest CPU user was one of Firefox's 'Web
> Content' processes, which was very consistently using 5% CPU. Maybe
> something in the new Firefox?
> 
> I wasn't sure how to reload the amdgpu module, since it was in use by 36
> other modules.
> 
> Tonight/tomorrow I will try leaving it on without Firefox running.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Nathan Yinger <npyinger at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Tried running top, but CPU was mostly idle.
>> 
>> I'll collect logs and look at the kernel modules next time it happens...
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Bill Farrow via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If your screen wasn't frozen after killing Xorg, I would have
>>> suggested that your USB may have done something weird, killing both
>>> your mouse and keyboard... But this sounds like a graphics card or
>>> driver lockup. Try reloading the various graphics related modules in
>>> your kernel.
>>> 
>>> Any error messages in "dmesg" or syslog ?
>>> 
>>> Bill
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