Is it just X11 freezing or do the virtual consoles stop responding to keyboard inp‎ut as well?

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From: Phil Wyett
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 18:27
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Subject: Re: help diagnosing cpu stall and frozen display

On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 18:14 -0500, hansel wrote:
> My GUI freezes, along with the keyboard and mouse, rescue always has been 
> via reset button. I am uncertain direction to take to sort this out.
> 
> At least once when this occured, I could remotely access the box. Also 
> during this same event, a CPU/memory hungry program I had begun on a 
> virtual console completed successfully with complete and correct looking 
> output. This seems important and suggest (to me) a problem with Desktop 
> management (gnome-session).
> 
> On the other hand, log files for today (2/3/15) report 52 CPU stalls 
> ("self-detected stall...") in about 8 hours. Web discussions suggests this 
> is related to kernel handling of the tsc register. Web discussion (and the 
> tsc kernel route comments) also suggests that problems are solved (or at 
> least managed).
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark Hansel


Hi,

Could you indicate:

* Which version of SL you are running?
* Kernel you are running?
* Graphics hardware?
* CPU?

etc.

Regards

Phil