On 2024/10/29 22:30, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> I'm also seeing hangs if the machines are left - so far seen after
> periods of between a few days and a few weeks. Fan spinning - Numlock
> unresponsive and blindly typing "bo r" doesn't do anything so seems not
> to be in DDB. I haven't been able to persuade ddb.console=1 to work
> in X (either with default ctrl+alt+esc or with machdep.kbdreset=2 and
> ctrl+alt+del, including with machdep.forceukbd=1).
> 
> Think I'll run some with MP_LOCKDEBUG kernels to see if I can get
> anything from that, though dmesg is cleared at boot so if they
> don't switch consoles there won't be much to see. And run some
> with DPMS disabled to see if the hangs go away there. (anecdotally the
> machines which are used less do seem to hang more frequently so this
> seems plausible).
> 
> Any other ideas very welcome..

So after ~6 weeks of running those machines with DPMS disabled (by
setting sleep-display-ac=0 in org/mate/power-manager via dconf local.d),
they have stopped hanging.

Not sure where to go from here though, it would be nice to get DPMS
working again on them..

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