On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:23 PM, jdow <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-02-05 05:08, Joseph Areeda wrote: >> >> On 01/29/2015 08:41 AM, Phil Wyett wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:30 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with >>>> messages like: >>>> >>>> on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] >>>> .xsession-errors contain things like: "gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 >>>> (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0." >>>> /var/log/messages has "NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the >>>> bus." >>>> >>>> Most things I've been able to find suggest a driver vs. kernel problem >>>> so I updated to the latest driver from NVidia (346.35) with no luck. >>>> >>>> Have others seen this? Any hints? Could it be the NVidia card failing? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Joe >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have seen this once before with a persons system. The issue in that >>> case was a bad physical connection. Removing the card, cleaning the >>> connections and reseating the card corrected the issue. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Phil >>> >> This took a while because I had to finish a project and couldn't afford >> random >> reboots, but I took Phil's advice and used the professional connector >> cleaner >> AKA pencil eraser on the connectors, reseated the card. I have now gone 4 >> days >> without an incident whereas I was forced to reboot 3 or 4 times per day. >> >> Thanks Phil! >> >> Joe > > > Just a note about pink erasers - don't. They contain a lot of sulfur. That > corrodes contacts rather rapidly. So the fix may be lamentably temporary and > a re-fix may be impossible after the second or third time.
I've had good success with it for edge-connected circuit boards, but that was a while ago. Contacts were bigger back then, and the gold tended to be thicker, so there was less chance of scrubbing your way right through it.
