Re: Orphaned Inode Problem
Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:06:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > he problem is that the program hangs and the system will not
> > recognized the keyboard, although, according to gKrellM the system is
> > still operating. The only solution seems to be to reboot the system.
>
> The contents of /var/log/messages at the time of the hang will
> definitely help to pinpoint the issue.
>
> And maybe the xorg.log, but it's non-trivial to extract something useful
> from it - you have to wait for the hang, reboot, and locate
> Xorg.0.log.old file.
>
>
> > I have no idea what the cause may be or what a solution might be.
> > Google is no help (al least, nothing that I can understand).
>
> A kernel panic or OOPS comes to mind first. That's very broad class of
> the problem, to say the least, hence the need of kernel logs.
>
> Xorg hang is the second possible option. AMD hardware is somewhat
> problematic here.
>
> Barring above - an overheat is the third possible scenario here.
It's also plausible that one or more disks are failing, or
controllers. This can be exacerbated by high temperature.
So:
look in logs
clean hardware, especially fans
add airflow
keep an SSH session open from another machine and see if you
can poke at it after a "hang".
-dsr-
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