On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:38:52AM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > > > On Oct 4, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Solene Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > did someone else did experience freezes issues recently? I had two freezes > > in > > one day. > > > > First time I was doing heavy CPU use and assumed something went wrong, or > > heat > > I don't know. Second time, I was thinking about typing something in a mail, > > the > > system was totally idle. > > Hi Solene, I’m not sure if this is related but I’m seeing console freezes on > my i386 laptop. > > I’m not using X, just the console. And I believe I’ve experienced these > freezes with and without drm enabled. > > The symptoms for me are the keyboard stops working for certain letters. And > then the console freezes completely shortly after that. > > I’m able to recover from this by switching to a different console and then > doing “kill -9” on the stuck ksh process. > > When your system freezes, are you able to switch to a different console? Or > can you still ssh into it? > > I’m not sure if it’s a hardware issue on my end or some bug and wasn’t > exactly sure how to debug this as I can’t reproduce easily. > > Things I tried: > 1) using historical kernels, but all the kernels I tried so far don’t solve > the problem. > > 2) ktracing the ksh processes on each console to see if there’s something > obvious that triggers the problem. I’m working on getting some traces but I > haven’t managed so far because the freezes are so random. > > Things I’m thinking of trying: > > 1) installing a different OS to check if it’s a hardware problem. > > 2) reinstalling 6.4 and 6.5 to see if I see the same problem. If yes then > likely a hardware problem because I used those releases in the past without > any issues. >
When it freezes, network stops responding and switching to tty doesn't work. I can't reproduce this, so the sad state of using another OS or a previous OpenBSD version would waste my time not working on -current.
