Bug#704696: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: System Becomes Unstable and Freezes or Reboots
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C M Reinehr:
> Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae
> ...
> Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
It's ambiguous: do you use 32-bit or 64-bit kernel on affected system?
> the screen would become completely corrupted and the system
> would freeze, requiring a power cycle hard reboot.
Does it really hangs up?
Maybe, it still reacts to Magic SysRq key:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
or even to <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <F1...6> combination.
> Later, it sometimes would
> just spontaneously reboot.
> ...
> I have tried different video drivers and different GUI's.
What drivers & "GUIs" did you use?
> The only thing that
> helped was to swap out monitors, from a new one with a resolution of 1920x108
> to an older one with a resolution of 1280x1024.
> ...
> The video chipset is Intel Sandybrook, but
> the problem occurred whether using the intel driver or the fbdev driver.
It's hard to debug without some details, sorry.
First of all, attach a "lspci -v" log to get exact chipset and other hardware names.
Kernel error logs are welcome; try to capture dmesg log before it freezes, e. g.:
dmesg > ~/dmesg_01.log
If there are some error message appearing at the screen
and you're unable to capture them, try to take a photo.
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Best wishes, Bob
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