AMD CPU locks up during video playback

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 14:28, Jeff <atrocity at wywh.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/21 11:31 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
>  > For the second or third time now, I've been watching a video in Brave
>  > (Version 1.31.88 Chromium: 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) unknown
>  > (64-bit)), I think both times they were GotoWebinar playbacks
>  > (recordings, not live) when the mouse and keyboard stopped responding
>  > and the system just hung.  The video stops, but the sound on the video
>  > continues for about three minutes before it also stops.  The only
>  > recovery I've been able to do that seems to work is rebooting.
>
> I ran Ubuntu successfully on the same computer for years and years until
> 20.04 caused me nothing but grief much like this. I never did find a good
> answer and eventually just switched to a different computer, but one
> thing I found was that in every case when it looked like the box was
> completely frozen, I could still log in via ssh from a different machine.

In that case it was probably just the GUI session or the graphics
hardware that was frozen, the "box" was not frozen.

Colin