Extremely frequent and unpredictable lockups
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:07 pm
Hello, I want to make this post as concise as possible because I am not sure if my system will lockup. I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad with Mint 13 installed using the Cinnamon desktop environment. For whatever reason I am experiencing frequent and unpredictable lockups while doing non resource intensive activities--particularly web browsing. This issue seems to always occur while I am browsing in chromium. when the lockups occur I can not move the mouse, nor kill X with C-M-delback (emacs lingo) nor even switch terminals. I have left the system running for over an hour after the system began to lock up, but the problem never disappears. Here is the output from my syslog:
My thinkpad uses both an hd intel graphics card and a seperate nvidia graphics card. I think that it is supposed to primarily use the intel card when browsing to conserve power and switch to the nvidia card when doing resource intensive graphical computations. I do not experience the crash in windows.
I do not know if the output from syslogs is the culprit of the crashes. any help is appreciated, thank you.
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Oct 7 14:06:19 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1794.619344] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
Oct 7 14:06:19 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1794.619682] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 48
Oct 7 14:06:19 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1794.619714] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 54
Oct 7 14:06:19 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1794.619743] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 55
Oct 7 14:06:19 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1794.619773] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 56
Oct 7 14:06:29 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1804.609703] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
Oct 7 14:06:29 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1804.610042] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 48
Oct 7 14:06:29 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1804.610073] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 54
Oct 7 14:06:29 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1804.610103] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 55
Oct 7 14:06:29 andrew-ThinkPad-T530 kernel: [ 1804.610132] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 56
I do not know if the output from syslogs is the culprit of the crashes. any help is appreciated, thank you.