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Re: recurrent soft/hard lockup on CPU



On Sat, 7 May 2016 17:55:08 -0300,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 06 May 2016, Seb wrote:
>> May 5 22:48:19 otaria kernel: [ 6706.415698] Hardware name: LENOVO
>> 10FWCTO1WW/SKYBAY, BIOS FWKT38A 01/28/2016

> Please update that BIOS.  It is too old (and no, I am *not* joking).

> People, as a rule of thumb: if it has an Intel Skylake processor or
> newer (6th gen Core, for example), consider updating the BIOS *first*
> should you get any sort of crash, kernel oops, or other really weird
> behavior.

> Unfortunately, there is a good chance the firmware update won't fix
> this particular problem.  But it will fix a few others that cause
> unpredictable behavior.

So far so good (knock on wood); I think this has solved the problem for
me.  It has been two days now that I don't see any kind of lockup in the
logs, which are now much smaller in size!

Thank you,

-- 
Seb


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