Do you use Flash with Firefox? That was a common cause of some hefty lockups for me in Linux. Only difference is I could usually still ssh in, kill flash, and recover without a reboot. The plugin container would be eating up proc utilization and I think there was (maybe still is) a memory leak with the no longer maintained Linux plugin. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > Every couple of days my computer freezes hard and I'm not sure how to > debug it. > > When it freezes Mouse and keyboard don't work, and I can't SSH in. There's > no disk activity either. The screen continues to display whatever it was > showing. > > In the past, when I got freezes I could do a SysRq-REISUB safe reboot, > but even that fails this time. > > I ran a full memtest86 test and everything passed. > > I don't know how to force it to occur. I usually have Firefox, some > terminals and pidgin open. Sometimes Thunderbird and VirtualBox are also > open, but not always. > > I'm running Debian Wheezy, 64 bit on a Thinkpad W530 > > I'd really like to avoid a reinstall if I can. > > Thanks, > Michael > -- > Support the digitization of the Iron County Miner newspaper archives > Like this project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitizeicm > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130130/c0494223/attachment.html>