<div dir="ltr"><div style>I'd blame the KVM. What kind of KVM is it?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Verify the BIOS settings for the Power Management policy.</div><div style><br></div><div style>By the way, if you connect to the machine remotely, why do you even need a KVM?</div> <div style><br></div><div style>It isn't a Hibernation issue, because what you describe regarding the machine is still on, means it is not turned off by Hibernation. What *does* it say in the logs at the time it occurs?</div> <div style><br></div><div style><div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_2879"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="border-top:1px solid #e5e5e5;padding-top:0.8em"><div style="margin:0 0 8px 0"> <table dir="ltr" border="0" rules="none" align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td dir="rtl"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.wisestamp.com/8bc2285d8fe8d13a74052220c8b2022b/1337275286.png" alt=""></td> <td dir="ltr">Amichai Rotman<br> Penguin - FLOSS Computer Service and Technical Consulting<br> +972-73-7962360 || +972-54-4605787</td> <td dir="ltr"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.wisestamp.com/8bc2285d8fe8d13a74052220c8b2022b/1343223293.png" alt=""></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 30 November <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a> 01:15, Phil Dobbin <<a href="mailto:bukowskiscat@gmail.com">bukowskiscat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > I have a AMD Athlon 2GHz box with 2 GB's of RAM running Debian Wheezy<br> > with all the latest patches pulled in from the repos. It runs fine<br> > (after the initial glitches with Gnome 3 which settled down about a<br> > month ago) but it has a nasty habit of just "dying". By dying I mean,<br> > I'll be logged into it from another machine using Byobu with tmux as the<br> > backend & I'll get a broken pipe error message & sure enough, when I<br> > cross the other side of the room, the screens gone blank (it's running X<br> > Windows) & the keyboard & mouse are completely unresponsive.<br> ><br> > I can see that the mouse still has life (it's an optical one) & with it<br> > being on a KVM switch, the light still shows activity on the switch &<br> > the computer tower itself has a green LED showing it's running & if I<br> > strain, I can still hear it running.<br> <br> </div>This is a bit beyond my level of expertise, but a couple of ideas:<br> <br> * attach an actual physical keyboard to the flakey machine, and then<br> either or both of:<br> <br> * enable X-clobbering and see if Ctrl-Alt-Backspace terminates X.org<br> and drops you to a console, in which case, you know it's still running<br> & it might be a graphics-related issue<br> <br> * try the Linux system-reset key combination - if it works, that will<br> tell you if the kernel is still responsive<br> <br> If the keyboard is USB then you can have multiple ones. I suggest a<br> local connection in case the issue is KVM-related; indeed, IIWY & if<br> possible, I'd remove the KVM for testing purposes.<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> Liam Proven • Profile: <a href="http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile" target="_blank">http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile</a><br> Email: <a href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven<br> MSN: <a href="mailto:lproven@hotmail.com">lproven@hotmail.com</a> • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven<br> Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44%2020-8685-0498" value="+442086850498">+44 20-8685-0498</a> • Cell: <a href="tel:%2B44%207939-087884" value="+447939087884">+44 7939-087884</a><br> </font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> --<br> ubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>