Hi Akemi,

Thanks you for the links. I installed nvidia as you suggested. I'll just
have to wait and see if this fixes the problem.

Best,
Valentin

On 10/22/2016 09:02 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Valentin B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Recently I upgraded a machine from 6.8 to 7.2 (Nitrogen). The machine is
>> randomly frozen and nothing works afterwards. No ctrl+alt+f2,f3,f4 etc.
>> The machine seems to be reponsive since I can ssh to it.
> 
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX
>> 550 Ti] (rev a1)
> 
> 
>> I've done some research on the net and saw the following links that
>> describe the problem.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158879
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87819
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188004
> 
> According to comment #23 of the 2nd link above (
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87819#c23 ),
> 
> "Module nouveau from linux-3.19.1 seems to fix the bug"
> 
> So, it may be worthwhile for you to test-install ELRepo's kernel-ml
> which is at version 4.8.4.
> 
> However, a better solution could be to use ELRepo's Nvidia driver.
> More details can be found at:
> 
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect
> 
> Akemi
> 

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