<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">A as a rule of thumb, if it locks up hard, it's the kernel or a driver, ie not userspace (in other words, not xfce).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Olivier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2016 at 20:24, phm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moonpunter@gmail.com" target="_blank">moonpunter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am on Debian amd64 running XFCE 4.12 and have not experienced<br>
"frequent lock ups" recently. I have Chromium and Iceweasel packages. My<br>
guess is there are Debian-specific packages which have broken. I want to<br>
point out that you can't be sure before you have tried another desktop.<br>
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Warren Block wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, brian wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> Is there anybody else out there using Debian Jessie 64-bit and XFCE on<br>
>> an AMD PC who, for the 3 or 4 days, has been seeing frequent lockups<br>
>> of their PC? The crashes seem to occur when I'm using a browser, and<br>
>> using Iceweasel is worse than using Chromium. When it happens, that's<br>
>> it, everything locks solid, mouse cursor won't move, the keyboard<br>
>> doesn't appear to work, the display clock stops, the only thing I can<br>
>> do is to use the reboot switch. The only thing I notice is that the<br>
>> drive access light is still flickering (once every 5-10 seconds) and<br>
>> there's been a disk repair needed every time I've had to reboot.<br>
>><br>
>> I know there was an amd64-microcode package in the last bunch of<br>
>> updates, it's for AMD processors other than mine (a Phenom II 6-core)<br>
>> so I uninstalled that, with no apparent effect on the problem.<br>
>><br>
>> The 'about XFCE' dialog gives the version as "4.10, distributed by<br>
>> Debian".<br>
>><br>
>> Anybody have any ideas, please? The lockups are happening every couple<br>
>> of hours or so.<br>
><br>
> xfce 4.10 on FreeBSD is used here daily, with no problems at all,<br>
> although generally on Intel processors.<br>
><br>
> There are a lot of things this could be, but hardware problems would<br>
> be high on my list. I would check that the power supply and system<br>
> fans are clear and spinning, the heatsinks are not clogged with dust,<br>
> that sort of thing. If the machine is more than a few years old, look<br>
> for bulged capacitors on the motherboard near the CPU. It's usually<br>
> difficult to see into a power supply, but try to look there also.<br>
> Failed caps can cause just this type of intermittent problem. So can<br>
> RAM that is failing.<br>
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