My X freezes on cold days - how to get back control
Hi,
When left overnight in dpms state, my Xorg stays in that state
ignoring any key inputs when I attempt to use the system next day
morning. This happens only when the overnight temps go low enough to
trigger some issue. I can login remotely, but cannot kill Xorg with any
of the known signals. I tried using sysrq methods to get back
keyboard/screen control, but that does not work either. Nothing other
than soft or hard reboot works.
Most of the time I can reboot remotely and to get back everything, but
sometimes, even that does not work. After issuing reboot, remote
connection closes and the system stays on. I have to push the power
button and hold for PS to power off and do a hard power cycle to get the
system back.
My system is based on "ASRock X570 PRO4 AMD AM4 ATX" motherboard and
"AMD Ryzen 5 3600" CPU. I also have a Nvidia 1030 GPU based video card
with binary driver installed.
Here is my SW info:
Debian bullseye
Linux xxxx 5.10.0-19-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.149-2 (2022-10-21)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Following nvidia related packages are installed in addition to
standard Xorg that comes with bullseye.
i A glx-alternative-nvidia - allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX
provider
i A libnvidia-glcore - NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX core libraries
i A libnvidia-ml1 - NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
i A nvidia-alternative - allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
i nvidia-detect - NVIDIA GPU detection utility
i A nvidia-installer-cleanup - cleanup after driver installation
with the nvidia-installer
i A nvidia-kernel-common - NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
i A nvidia-kernel-dkms - NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
i A nvidia-kernel-support - NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
i A nvidia-legacy-check - check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy
driver
i A nvidia-modprobe - utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and
create device nodes
i A nvidia-settings - tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
i nvidia-smi - NVIDIA System Management Interface
i A nvidia-support - NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
i A nvidia-vdpau-driver - Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
- NVIDIA driver
i nvidia-vulkan-common - NVIDIA Vulkan driver - common files
i xserver-xorg-video-nvidia - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
Please let me know if there is something I can do before changing my
video card.
Regards
Ramesh
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