Hi everyone, having a really weird one here. At fist I thought it was just my old thinkpad dying, but it seems to be software:
Debian 9.0, using either KRDC or Remmina for RDP access every 10-30 min I'll get a complete system hang. It will either be a full screen blackout, or black with a thin orange line up the left of the screen. In both cases, no keys respond, caps light doesn't change, and the only way out is a deathchoke on the powerbutton. Once rebooted it will work fine for a while longer. Only seems to happen when I'm running fullscreen, never happened when doing other tasks with the machine such as browsing or watching videos fullscreen.
Checking /var/log/messages doesn't seem to tell me anything useful about what happened before the crash.
I am using the mesa driver for the Intel gpu, for what it's worth. Machine is a X201 with 8gib of ram and a solid state drive, otherwise stock thinkpad.
That's a great question. I'm sure it would work, but seeing as how I presently don't have enough time to a complete reinstall on this system it doesn't help much.
Would the video drivers/rdp client versions/display management software be that different in Jessie?
No idea, i'm not overly familiar except to know unstable is named unstable for good reasons. Id suggest checking bugzilla, and submitting a bug if one doesnt exist, as your basically testing a development version.
I'll give that client a shot for a few days, thanks. Otherwise, I'll have to go down to jessie once I'm done with this project and have a few hours to set it back up again... Thanks!
go to /etc/apt/sources.list open with a text editor and wherever it says stretch change to jessie.
I.E
FROM STRETCH
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org stretch/updates main
TO JESSIE
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
Then do a full system upgrade with the stable packages.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
(-y to say yes because it will ask a load of questions, this speeds it up by defaulting to yes for all)
Note: you can go back to Stretch at any time by doing the opposite of the above steps (change jessie to stretch in the sources list).
Furthermore, you can also have stable packages in stretch by explicitly defining them as well. Note this is a bit more complicated, which is why I suggest just going to stable to see if that fixes your issue, from there we can then experiment.