On 2025-01-25, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with >>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- >>> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable >>> since assembled (about 5 years ago). >>> >>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing >>> Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing > > I've accidentally seen this ages ago and this may not be there anymore. > Isn't there some sort of output sent to ctrl alt F12? If so, that may > shed some sort of light. I think it is the same as messages or > something. I saw it once when scrolling through the consoles looking > for something else. I'm not real sure what I saw but looked like kernel > something.
None of the other ctrl-alt-Fx keys work. I don't specifically remember trying ctrl-alt-F12, but I'll give that a go next time. I tried rolling back Xorg server, that didn't seem to help. Google has found reports of recent versions (24.3.x) of mesa being blamed for problems like this. I see in the logs that mesa got upgraded from 24.2.8 to 24.3.3 on the 20th. I've rolled that back, to see if that helps. I thought it started a little earlier than that, but my memory may be playing tricks on me: it's been a long week. I've been looking for a good document with some recommendations on how to use the various SysRq functions (in what sequence), but all I can ever find is just lists of the commands with very descriptions of each.
