From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E33CE1382C5 for ; Wed, 12 May 2021 21:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13C60E094A; Wed, 12 May 2021 21:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ot1-f42.google.com (mail-ot1-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2E9FE0909 for ; Wed, 12 May 2021 21:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot1-f42.google.com with SMTP id t10-20020a05683022eab0290304ed8bc759so815404otc.12 for ; Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=HdlQWLSWfSlRBAZQmSnxM98p6J9wG1UApC9euKy0mjY=; b=g5XuR16zCQQVU1y/e46ZcFqmcVrRLOpom4k37s4NU+bI1tNyC9nx/zRKZup2ElHwr2 yLXMgF/rVgAOBEkr6ZinVtlwbgAl8UDbTtSXPcJFhzirjFr/bQ+HKOaoOqJe328usxLO CDCwXM1DP3oGGAMDqUHYSCO5+FrxmmJLlP2diwFtfc+zKhtS6OV6m7+HD+QxfKwFcO37 VrlvQ7LBW5CsyMZPm1IDfGq01nrlKxJ7HTZyvUzQ9rufsvG8myh86cU+yJpo2bd4CA/E fBeLfHE8NTO0FVdhcXq3lDsBUVa6W6Sz+PDf0Npd4e9bF3LPw0WNeqTSgmFDYV2LXQWD 5jOg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531P+DJ59i1eJ2a+5GAvctblv0nXfr6B3k49FwjYUr4gB9Aj8bl5 O8pmF+GDZIsHnsVfS7dFB1OqDobf+QLT9Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxLu5MtsFzua0uFNH/CC2RSfjsh8UZFk4CpfjXvq5werwAh1GOaA+KdFuhNs3vLLNZ+paDs8g== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6830:12d6:: with SMTP id a22mr24308958otq.66.1620855640700; Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.0.202] (50-243-23-225-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.243.23.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q7sm209877otf.10.2021.05.12.14.40.39 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Jack Message-ID: <8344519a-eb5e-b58c-a371-817562704494@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 15:40:30 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US-large X-Archives-Salt: 532e1c13-29bf-4b6d-b245-9bf2200111f4 X-Archives-Hash: 91e364ae121507d072f39d04c7f0d352 On 5/12/21 10:35 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > May be off topic. I've been experiencing approximately monthly hard > lockups on my machine. Dell Inspiron 3252 Shipped Feb 19th, 2016. Atom > based machine with 8 gigs of ram. > > gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep march= > > ...tells me it's a "silvermont". I'm running bog standard 64-bit > no-multilib Gentoo, a bit on the lean side. By "hard lockup" I mean... > > * {CTRL}{ALT}{DEL} won't reboot > * Magic SysRq won't reboot > * The Power button powers down, but is unable to reboot (there's a light > inside the case that stays on) Is that a short press or long press (at least six seconds?) on the power button.  Short push should send the power down signal to the OS, but long push should actually cut power. > * I have to flip off the power bar, wait, flip power bar back on, and > press the power button > > Are there any utilities I can use to possibly diagnose the problem? > Let's just say, I'm now somewhat fanatical about backups every couple of > days. >