6th February 2017, 2:02
(This post was last modified: 6th February 2017, 6:23 by kdemeoz.
Edit Reason: #5.
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Another morning, another system lock-up, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace failed, REISUB failed. I am exasperated! 6th Hard Reset needed since my 31/12/16 Maui clean reinstallation, & 2nd since changing from NVidia to Nouveau GPU driver.
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Scenario almost identical to my 2/2/17 post:
1. Suspended the Tower as usual late last night.
2. This morning i Resumed, but instead of the Lock Screen, i was looking at one of my open programs on one of my VDs [= Bad Thing #1] AGAIN, & next i realised that all mouse & k/b inputs were dead [= Bad Thing #2] AGAIN.
3. Having recently enabled Ctrl+Alt+Backspace per earlier this thread, i now tried it. It did correctly kill the session & give me a standard Login screen, but... k/b & mouse dead, so screen was useless.
4. Toggled over to TTY2, where i logged in & again tried: sudo systemctl restart sddm ... This took me to a normal-looking Plasmashell Login Screen, except all inputs remained dead, so it was useless. This also happened last time.
5. Hard Reset.
Note that the previous freeze happened with the then-current kernel, but since then another kernel update occurred, so is now 4.4.0-62.
So, is this how it just "has to be" for me? If i want to use Maui/Plasma5, irrespective of kernel, irrespective of Nvidia or Nouveau, irrespective of nice clean reinstall, i simply have to accept that maybe every few days, it will freeze, disobey all standard commands, & mandate a Hard Reset to recover? When it's working, it's a really lovely powerful OS, but this unreliability is very grating.
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Scenario almost identical to my 2/2/17 post:
1. Suspended the Tower as usual late last night.
2. This morning i Resumed, but instead of the Lock Screen, i was looking at one of my open programs on one of my VDs [= Bad Thing #1] AGAIN, & next i realised that all mouse & k/b inputs were dead [= Bad Thing #2] AGAIN.
3. Having recently enabled Ctrl+Alt+Backspace per earlier this thread, i now tried it. It did correctly kill the session & give me a standard Login screen, but... k/b & mouse dead, so screen was useless.
4. Toggled over to TTY2, where i logged in & again tried: sudo systemctl restart sddm ... This took me to a normal-looking Plasmashell Login Screen, except all inputs remained dead, so it was useless. This also happened last time.
5. Hard Reset.
Note that the previous freeze happened with the then-current kernel, but since then another kernel update occurred, so is now 4.4.0-62.
So, is this how it just "has to be" for me? If i want to use Maui/Plasma5, irrespective of kernel, irrespective of Nvidia or Nouveau, irrespective of nice clean reinstall, i simply have to accept that maybe every few days, it will freeze, disobey all standard commands, & mandate a Hard Reset to recover? When it's working, it's a really lovely powerful OS, but this unreliability is very grating.