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[Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds more and more odd. Maybe things are related on how long the
system is powered on. It has been a while, but I had that once. Random
freezes but rather shortly after cold boot. Though that was a desktop
and back then it was the connectors of the power supply not all fitted
firmly. So depending on heating up the connection it would handle higher
currents better or worse.

On the other hand you wrote that on Xenial this happened after one hour
and immediately after. And by that time things should be warmed up
enough... The problem of course is that without a repeatable method to
trigger the problem or by luck get some error message, this will be near
impossible to track down. The only thing I can think of is to try to
remember whether there could be a pattern in what is being done
primarily when lockups happen.

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Title:
  Total system freeze after 3.16.0-38.52

Status in linux-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This should have been reported already last year, but here it goes.

  Problem:
  My laptop is a ASUS N71JA and works perfectly in Windows. Everything was fine with Xubuntu 14.04 through kernels 3.13 and 3.16 up to 3.16.0-38.52. Desktop freezes, like totally dies with hard power reset being the only option, every now and then from this kernel and onwards. This affects 3.19 and 4.2.0 kernels released after this date as well. No Magic SysRq possible and I can't see anything fancy in syslog or kern.log. Desktop can die anytime between immediately after boot or after a few hours, but it happens completely randomly and is hard to debug.

  Workaround:
  3.16.0-38.52 was released in May 2015 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1452882).
  3.16.0-37.51 and 3.16.0-36.48 have NEVER frozen. 

  The only non-upstream change that was made to 3.16.0-38.52 was
  "vesafb: Set mtrr:3 (write-combining) as default"
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1434581). This
  is probably not implemented in the mainline kernel tree, right? I've
  been using mainline 3.16.7-ckt24-trusty without any problems now for
  over a month (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-
  ppa/mainline/v3.16.7-ckt24-trusty/) i.e. it seems like 1434581 is
  causing the problem.

  Can this be verified by some other method e.g. by disabling/reverting
  1434581 in a "normal" non-mainline kernel?

  Solution:
  ?
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC2:  isak       1669 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  isak       1669 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  isak       1669 F.... pulseaudio
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=188824e0-028f-4004-92b9-9e627eff4d5c
  MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. N71Ja
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic root=UUID=1d243640-e961-4ee3-b6d9-8e4ee5816090 ro quiet splash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt10
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.16.0-38-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.16.0-38-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                             1.127.20
  Tags:  trusty
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: N71Ja.206
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: N71Ja
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrN71Ja.206:bd05/14/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN71Ja:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnN71Ja:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: N71Ja
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

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