I've been getting random lockups for the past few months - total freezes, usually when idle, holding the power button to shutdown being the only option (All key combinations, including REISUB have no effect). Logs aren't helpful, as the last log entries are different and without sign of failure/warnings/errors. I'm forced to boot into another install and e2fsck to fix the resulting errors (mainly orphans after recovering journal).
I tried a reinstall using the latest (July and also August) MX monthly snapshots, but the problem persists. It might be days before a lockup, or it might be hours - I might have one after the other within minutes. I've not noticed the fans going mad, which I'd expect if the CPU was at 100%, which it wasn't. I've not seen the HDD light stuck on either. It's just a totally quiet and unresponsive Laptop.
One of the installs was from the original MX 17, the others are 17.1 onwards. I used the AMD Laptop for a few days (it's a clone of the original installs), and no lockups. So there's a few possible causes I can think of:
- Failing hardware - RAM/CPU/HDD (HDD is unlikely, as I swapped it to test - Laptop is never under load when it happens, which I'd guess means RAM/CPU is less likely?)
- Mitigation/patches in latest (last few) Intel microcode updates
- Mitigation/patches in Kernels
- Very bad luck
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System: Host: xxx Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 tk: Gtk 2.24.31 Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon March 14, 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: RV411/RV511/E3511/S3511/RV711 v: N/A
serial: <filter>
Mobo: SAMSUNG model: RV411/RV511/E3511/S3511/RV711 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix
v: 03PA.M001.20110312.XW date: 03/12/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 7.6 Wh condition: 7.6/47.5 Wh (16%) model: SAMSUNG Electronics
status: Full
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3 M 380 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem
rev: 5 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20215
Speed: 933 MHz min/max: 933/2533 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 933 2: 1466 3: 933 4: 933
Graphics: Card-1: NVIDIA GT218M [GeForce 315M] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 02:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nv,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 02:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.0-8-amd64
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A bus ID: 03:00.0
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 232.89 GiB used: 119.15 GiB (51.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2546GSX size: 232.89 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 36.28 GiB used: 12.63 GiB (34.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: 54.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 61 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 196 Uptime: 2h 49m Memory: 5.70 GiB used: 776.5 MiB (13.3%) Init: SysVinit
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.10