21st February 2017, 7:54
Rocky - thanks. I still intend to reply to your latest details, but must first post this latest unpleasant update.
Another total system freeze. 10th Hard Reset needed since my 31/12/16 Maui clean reinstallation, 6th since changing from NVidia to Nouveau GPU driver, & 2nd with Kernel 4.9.9.
Unlike most of these freezes, today's one again was not during Resume from Suspend, but instead was during a normal working session [& not running a backup, no USB sticks in USB ports], just multiple pgms open [but still less than 1/3 of my 32 GB RAM used].
Hilariously ironic though; wrt https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....4#pid41774, i had one of my Maui VMs open, & had run the HWE command in Konsole in it, which was maybe 75% complete when the Tower freeze struck. Looking at the corresponding syslog file, this time there were NO instances of that "NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s!" error / failure.
Instead, at 15:22 this happened;
Another total system freeze. 10th Hard Reset needed since my 31/12/16 Maui clean reinstallation, 6th since changing from NVidia to Nouveau GPU driver, & 2nd with Kernel 4.9.9.
Unlike most of these freezes, today's one again was not during Resume from Suspend, but instead was during a normal working session [& not running a backup, no USB sticks in USB ports], just multiple pgms open [but still less than 1/3 of my 32 GB RAM used].
Hilariously ironic though; wrt https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....4#pid41774, i had one of my Maui VMs open, & had run the HWE command in Konsole in it, which was maybe 75% complete when the Tower freeze struck. Looking at the corresponding syslog file, this time there were NO instances of that "NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s!" error / failure.
Instead, at 15:22 this happened;
Code:
Feb 21 15:22:42 Z97-HD3 kernel: [113067.118718] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP