Pulseaudio freezes the system

Dear all
I've got the following problem. Randomly GNOME3 completely freezes (I am able to move the mouse pointer but any click I make has no effect). Since the system freezes I'm able to see the precise hour in the Gnome3 top panel. Consulting the log contained in /var/log/errors.log I see that every time the system freezes the log contains the following error:
May 14 21:27:23 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1674]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 14 21:27:23 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1674]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 14 21:27:26 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1740]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
The error is however impossible to be reproduced with precision since it seems that it appears randomly even if i'm not using any audio player. If it helps I can tell you that I made a fresh net install of my system and I'm using a T60 Lenovo laptop.
Thank you in advance.

Can pulseaudio be uninstalled with GNOME3? If so, try removing pulseaudio. If you still get freezes then the problem won't be pulseaudio. Instead it will be either the drivers, alsa, or your hardware. You can also try to use oss instead of alsa. If you can't remove pulseaudio try using another desktop environment that allows you to control it. I don't propose a fix for the problem. It is just what I would do in this situation to try to target the problem more accurately.

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    6166 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd 0 816.0K 920.0K 3.5M
    10819 eyolf /bin/bash /usr/bin/yaourt i 0 968.0K 968.0K 980.0K
    6185 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /r 0 1.0M 1.0M 1.1M
    8255 eyolf htop 0 1.1M 1.1M 2.6M
    6148 eyolf /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork 0 1.0M 1.2M 2.5M
    8251 eyolf -zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
    9419 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
    12072 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
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    11853 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
    11064 eyolf zsh 0 1.8M 1.8M 1.8M
    18564 eyolf zsh 0 2.0M 2.0M 2.1M
    6204 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2- 0 2.1M 2.3M 5.3M
    12359 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.4M
    13214 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.6M
    11996 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http -- 0 3.1M 3.1M 3.2M
    6248 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash - 0 3.4M 3.5M 6.7M
    25054 eyolf /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 0 4.1M 5.2M 9.2M
    3832 eyolf mocp 0 5.3M 5.3M 5.4M
    15345 eyolf python2 /usr/bin/smem -kt 0 9.6M 9.8M 12.1M
    9225 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.8M 13.8M 13.8M
    6226 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-polkit/polkit 0 14.5M 14.7M 17.9M
    13216 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.7M 14.8M 20.0M
    6140 eyolf mate-session 0 14.7M 14.9M 19.1M
    6272 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/notific 0 14.7M 15.1M 21.2M
    6216 eyolf mate-screensaver 0 15.1M 15.2M 17.7M
    12074 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 16.1M 16.8M 19.4M
    11855 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
    9421 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
    6222 eyolf mate-power-manager 0 17.0M 17.5M 23.8M
    6218 eyolf mate-volume-control-applet 0 17.1M 17.6M 22.9M
    6270 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/clock-a 0 17.9M 19.1M 29.4M
    9248 eyolf vim -- /home/eyolf/.vimrc 0 19.2M 19.2M 19.3M
    9285 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 20.6M 21.2M 24.0M
    6268 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/wnck-ap 0 20.5M 21.3M 31.8M
    6159 eyolf marco 0 21.3M 22.9M 33.2M
    6227 eyolf nm-applet 0 21.9M 23.3M 29.3M
    15027 eyolf /usr/bin/gvim -f /tmp/vimpe 0 21.4M 26.7M 59.7M
    15250 eyolf /usr/bin/gvim -f /tmp/vimpe 0 21.4M 26.9M 60.1M
    9315 eyolf mate-terminal 0 26.1M 27.7M 39.9M
    12779 eyolf caja 0 22.4M 29.9M 65.3M
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    6164 eyolf mate-panel 0 31.0M 31.8M 40.6M
    12345 eyolf vidalia 0 62.9M 68.4M 103.3M
    6261 eyolf mono /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.e 0 94.8M 95.5M 105.8M
    14331 eyolf luakit 0 111.2M 120.1M 160.8M
    12638 eyolf /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-con 0 118.7M 134.2M 179.2M
    13290 eyolf zathura -- /home/eyolf/doku 0 132.5M 136.8M 145.3M
    14386 eyolf thunderbird 0 262.2M 269.1M 307.7M
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    62 1 0 2.0G 2.1G 2.5G

  • Can Time Machine freeze the system?

    Hello,
    Twice in the last month or so, Time Machine has apparently frozen my iMac while trying to find my external USB drive. Both times, all applications and the finder froze, although I could still maneuver the mouse (could not click on anything). Force Quit would not work and worse, powering off and powering on would not force a reboot -- the same frozen screen would reappear.
    After a lot of investigation the first time, I realized that the Time Machine menu button had stuck in place and my external LaCie drive was not responding. I also found that when I tried Force Quit, I saw a process listed -- backupd-helper -- for a short period of time that helped point me to a Time Machine issue. Both times, the only solution was to turn off the external drive.
    Normally, Time Machine works great with this drive. I leave it on and it does its thing every hour. I think the drive is formatted correctly (GUID), with only one partition, and it checks out ok with drive utility, so I'm not sure the drive is the issue.
    Perhaps someone here has experienced the same kind of odd behavior? Or could point me to a log file to review for possible evidence of what's going on? It seems like the drive mounts most of the time as required, but for some reason has failed to on these two occasions.
    Thanks for any help!

    Folks;
    I am new to this board but I have experienced a similar problem and thought I would pass along what I THINK has solved the problem.
    I purchased a new 27" imac about three weeks ago.  At the same time I also purchased a "g drive mini" (500mg) that I used as a back drive to use with Time Machine.  Over those three weeks my imac froze about  6 times and this seemed to happen during Time Machine back ups.  I would get a message about "calculating changes" and the machine would freeze at that point for many hours (often during overnight hours) - forcing a hard shut down of the imac. 
    After researching the internet for a solution, one suggestion I found was to turn off "sleep mode" for the comouter and ALSO turn off "put hard disks to sleep when possible".  These can both be found in the Preferences section of your mac.
    I made these changes on Wednesday evening (6-1-2011) and the machine has backed up every hour since then (now 6-3-2011) with no problems.
    So, having said all of that, I think the turning off of the the two sleep modes has done the trick.
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    Matt

  • Video will not open OS 10.6.8 Safari 5.1.10, youtube page freezes the system. Activity moniy=tor shows all memory being used up, but processor use is very low

    Video will not open. OS 10.6.8, safari 5.1.10. problem is very noticeable when opening youtube main page. stalls complete system. tried reloading most recent version of flash. Activity monitor identifies all memory is being used to open page, no processor usage and transfer rate does not look out of line. 4 GB memory. Macbookpro6.2, i5, 2.4 GHz. Individual Video will open in facebook. Some video will not open in Yahoo.

    Video will not open. OS 10.6.8, safari 5.1.10. problem is very noticeable when opening youtube main page. stalls complete system. tried reloading most recent version of flash. Activity monitor identifies all memory is being used to open page, no processor usage and transfer rate does not look out of line. 4 GB memory. Macbookpro6.2, i5, 2.4 GHz. Individual Video will open in facebook. Some video will not open in Yahoo.

  • 512MB of RAM and Widgets...can it make the system completely freeze?

    Noticing a very sluggish response on my Mac Mini I realize that memory is an issue with MS Office and such using Safari with iCal in the background.
    My Mac does a complete freeze, no force quit no toggle when I hit F12 (widgets) retrieving widgets while an app is running will freeze the system it has occurred twice in one day.
    I use a maintenance tool to run cron jobs, optimize safari, updated prebinding, check S.M.A.R.T disk and all is fine.
    Looking for more avenues...
    I am on the fence on adding more memory because of the processor chip and wanting to go to Leopard shortly..
    I may just have to backup and live with this problem...

    The folder and question mark at startup is an indicator that no valid MacOS install was found to boot from. Usually it means the system can't find the internal drive or the internal drive wasn't correctly recognized. In a normally functional and correctly configured Mac, this is a rare thing, but it can happen if, for example, the system is usually booted from an external drive, but the external is disconnected or powered down.
    However, it can also be caused by an error in the system management controller, where an SMC reset will usually resolve it. It may have been this in your case, since although you may not have intentionally performed an SMC reset, the disconnection of power and other devices is essentially the same thing!
    Just check that the startup disk preference pane has the internal drive selected, and as long as there is a valid MacOS install on that, this problem should not recur.

  • Arch Linux freezes the whole system in VMware

    Hi,
    I use Windows Vista as main OS and I'm trying to install Arch on VMware, the problem is, when I log in into the console and try to type anything else, it will crash my host system (Vista).
    This is very weird because:
    a) I'm running a virtual Gentoo on VMware and it doesn't freeze as Arch.
    b) Arch Linux doesn't freeze the system if I use VirtualBox instead of VMware
    c) I did a clean install of XP (just for testing purposes) and virtual Arch also crashed the system.
    This is confusing me because:
    a) Why does Gentoo work and Arch doesn't? Are there base configurations/software so different that one works and the other doesn't?
    b) Why can VirtualBox handle Arch and VMware can't?
    c) Even a clean install can't handle Arch on VMware? Does this mean it's something wrong in my hardware? How come if Gentoo works on VMware and VirtualBox handles Arch?
    Please note that I can't use VirtualBox, I must use VMware and I would really like to use Arch instead of Gentoo. I'm trying to ditch Gentoo and use Arch but this problem is leaving me no choice than to keep using Gentoo...
    Any ideas?

    Ranguvar wrote:Is it that you can't use VBox, or you must use VMware? There are still other virtual machine apps.
    I know, but I want to use VMware. I don't like VirtualBox that much and VMware is better for me. The other virtual machine apps don't even come close to VMware, at least in my point of view. But it doesn't matter, I want to use VMware.
    Ranguvar wrote:Anyways, is it the Arch install CD that crashes, or is it Arch after it has been installed? Have you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _in_VMWare ?
    After installation, it never crashed during the install as far as I remember.
    Ranguvar wrote:Do you get any specific error messages from Windows? Are you using the latest version of VMware? Can you at least try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem?
    No specific error messages, nothing in the log files, there's nothing anywhere... Yes, I'm using the latest version. What do you mean try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem? I've already used VirtualBox, installed Arch fine and it didn't freeze.
    Ranguvar wrote:This is very odd, and may actually indicate a problem with hardware, or something... a virtual machine should NOT be able to bring down the host, under any circumstances. If it can, both the OS and the virtual machine are bugged. Not too much of a surprise, but yeah.
    My thoughts exactly but how can be an hardware problem if VirtualBox works just fine? How can it be a virtual machine problem if Gentoo works fine on VMware?
    fumbles wrote:Sounds like a problem with VMware (or maybe Vista?) not Arch. Try reinstalling VMware, make sure it is at the lastest version (maybe try even roll back to the previous version), make sure Vista is updated. When you say crash, do you mean BSoD? Or does it just freeze? If it is a BSoD then what is the specific error?
    It just freezes, not a BSOD. It is not a problem with Vista because it also happens on XP. Like I said on my first post, I did a clean install of XP, update all drivers and did all Windows updates, installed latest VMware version and the same thing still happened.
    Joe_Arch wrote:How much ram are you allocating to Arch? Counterintuitively, you might want to try lowering it. If you allocate too much your host OS freaks out.
    I have 2Gb (2x1024Mb) installed on my laptop and I'm using just 256Mb for Arch.
    jacko wrote:someone else was having this issue the other day on irc. the fact is a guest OS should NEVER even come close to crashing the host OS. So more then likely this is a bug in VMware and not arch. What arch packages that is causing the conflict with VMware is unapparent, but it's not likely a bug arch can fix.
    That was me... I'm not saying it's a bug on Arch, but it's weird that Gentoo doesn't have a problem and Arch does. They must differ somehow, one must use some package where the other doesn't or some global system configuration is different from one to the other, there must be some difference, otherwise, they both would freeze or they both would work...

  • How can I fix my system preferences so the system preferences window don't freeze up every time I open it?

    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix a System Prefrences problem? Every time I try to open system prefrences I get that little color wheel over the System Prefrences window, and I am not able to change any system prefrence options or click on any options in the window. It just freezes up. I have iOS Lion 10.7.4 version on a 2012 Macbook Pro i7. Right now my screen saver is just a blank blue color, and I am unable to set any other photo from my photo library to the hpome screen picture even without going throiugh system prefrnces. I have tried Disk Utility>Verify Disk Permissions, and that did not work. I have also tried Disk Utility>Permissions Repair, and that did not work either. Can anyone tell me another option to try because I am unable to open Time Machine to repair to an earlier date because that window freezes up also. Does anyone know any other options? This Macbook Has been doing this sort of thing since I took it out of the box brand new 4 months ago, but it fixted itself before the Macbook help coverage was expired so I never bothered to call Apple about it. Now it just freezes up and never works, I can't change my system time out I cant change any system prefrences on my Macbook Pro. It really ***** bad. Also another symptom my macbook has right before this problem accours is my screen saver on my computer will automatically be swithched to that Galaxy screen saver all the sudden when I turn my computer on then when I go to change the screen save back to a picture I had on my computer the system prefrences just freeze up. Please let me know if you know what I can do. Thanks.
    Also I am Unable to open Dock Preferences and i get the frozen screen color wheel Just like on System Preferences.
    J
    Message was edited by: skybluguy76

    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
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    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
    Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Try the action again. Post any messages that appear in the Console window – the text, please, not a screenshot.
    Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

  • Error message: "Warning: unresponsive script". Afterward, the system freezes and will then crash. Crash reports have been submitted many, many times without response. I have tried the fore-mentioned solutions with either no results or very bad results

    Error message: "Warning: unresponsive script". Afterward, the system freezes and will then crash. Crash reports have been submitted many, many times without response. I have tried the fore-mentioned solutions with either no results or very bad results which I filed a report but did not receive an answer. The application to block scripts actually worsened the problem and I could not correct the situation for a while (no response from Firefox, at all). I have also been through this procedure without any one contacting me, AT ALL.
    == URL of affected sites ==
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    There does appear to be any support whatsoever from mighty "non caring" FIREFOX & people are getting fed up. We may as well try another system, if they can't be bothered to provide any support for their system, we can't be bothered to use their system.
    Brianeng

  • The system freezes a lot and dmesg gives an error in Nvidia drivers

    I faced constant system freezing in Ubuntu under both Unity and Gnome shell. So I came to Arch. In Arch also im facing the same issue. I tried many things in these forums but nothing helped. Please help me. The system hangs constantly and the mouse barely moves. When I press ctrl+alt+f2 it takes several minutes to go to the terminal and then I can reboot. Please help. Here's the output of dmesg :
    [ 1.826414] systemd[1]: Starting Login Prompts.
    [ 1.826435] systemd[1]: Reached target Login Prompts.
    [ 1.826449] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
    [ 1.826519] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
    [ 1.826533] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems.
    [ 1.826547] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems.
    [ 1.826572] systemd[1]: Starting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
    [ 1.826666] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
    [ 1.826685] systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
    [ 1.826720] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
    [ 1.826732] systemd[1]: Starting Paths.
    [ 1.826744] systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
    [ 1.826755] systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes.
    [ 1.826767] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
    [ 1.826780] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-c11bdfb5\x2db15e\x2d473a\x2d8cf8\x2d020715616bde.device...
    [ 1.826793] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-8ada8f05\x2d1853\x2d45c7\x2da302\x2d7d11869fd5bd.device...
    [ 1.826805] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-E8D0\x2d38A9.device...
    [ 1.826816] systemd[1]: Starting Root Slice.
    [ 1.834477] systemd[1]: Created slice Root Slice.
    [ 1.834493] systemd[1]: Starting User and Session Slice.
    [ 1.834670] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.
    [ 1.834684] systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
    [ 1.834712] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
    [ 1.834724] systemd[1]: Starting Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
    [ 1.834752] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
    [ 1.834764] systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket.
    [ 1.834790] systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket.
    [ 1.834805] systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket.
    [ 1.834829] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
    [ 1.834843] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket.
    [ 1.834868] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
    [ 1.834880] systemd[1]: Starting LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
    [ 1.834907] systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
    [ 1.834921] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket.
    [ 1.834967] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
    [ 1.834986] systemd[1]: Starting System Slice.
    [ 1.835160] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
    [ 1.835179] systemd[1]: Started File System Check on Root Device.
    [ 1.835191] systemd[1]: Starting system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
    [ 1.835379] systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
    [ 1.835393] systemd[1]: Mounting Temporary Directory...
    [ 1.835993] systemd[1]: Starting system-getty.slice.
    [ 1.836195] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
    [ 1.837686] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel...
    [ 1.838280] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
    [ 1.838810] systemd[1]: Mounting Huge Pages File System...
    [ 1.839349] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
    [ 1.841338] systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
    [ 1.841909] systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
    [ 1.842552] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
    [ 1.844757] systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
    [ 1.844789] systemd[1]: Mounting Configuration File System...
    [ 1.845225] systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
    [ 1.846612] systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats...
    [ 1.847351] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
    [ 1.848175] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
    [ 1.861600] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
    [ 1.865901] systemd[1]: Got automount request for /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, triggered by 141 (systemd-binfmt)
    [ 1.919562] systemd-udevd[165]: starting version 212
    [ 1.974653] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
    [ 1.981863] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
    [ 1.981873] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
    [ 1.981971] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4
    [ 1.981976] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
    [ 1.983340] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
    [ 1.983390] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
    [ 1.983777] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
    [ 1.986033] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
    [ 1.986096] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
    [ 1.990191] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
    [ 1.990406] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
    [ 1.990820] acpi device:43: registered as cooling_device4
    [ 1.990950] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input5
    [ 1.991137] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
    [ 1.993033] wmi: Mapper loaded
    [ 2.014083] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047f (\PMIO) (20131218/utaddress-258)
    [ 2.014092] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
    [ 2.014097] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20131218/utaddress-258)
    [ 2.014103] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
    [ 2.014105] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20131218/utaddress-258)
    [ 2.014110] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
    [ 2.014112] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
    [ 2.016081] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
    [ 2.016084] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ00] (28 C)
    [ 2.016323] thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone1
    [ 2.016325] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (30 C)
    [ 2.016391] ACPI: Fan [FAN0] (off)
    [ 2.016435] ACPI: Fan [FAN1] (off)
    [ 2.016476] ACPI: Fan [FAN2] (off)
    [ 2.016517] ACPI: Fan [FAN3] (off)
    [ 2.016555] ACPI: Fan [FAN4] (off)
    [ 2.027162] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x000000000000f040-0x000000000000f05f conflicts with OpRegion 0x000000000000f040-0x000000000000f04f (\_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI) (20131218/utaddress-258)
    [ 2.027171] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
    [ 2.027373] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input6
    [ 2.036735] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
    [ 2.036746] r8169 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
    [ 2.037012] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
    [ 2.037275] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: RTL8168f/8111f at 0xffffc900059b6000, 60:a4:4c:3d:76:fa, XID 08000800 IRQ 44
    [ 2.037279] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
    [ 2.041327] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
    [ 2.042605] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
    [ 2.042682] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
    [ 2.042728] hda_intel: Disabling MSI
    [ 2.042735] hda-intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client
    [ 2.047515] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    [ 2.058597] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x2, revision=0x28
    [ 2.059406] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x2, revision=0x28
    [ 2.059423] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x2, revision=0x28
    [ 2.059438] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x2, revision=0x28
    [ 2.059519] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba
    [ 2.070989] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
    [ 2.071058] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
    [ 2.071112] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
    [ 2.071164] input: HDA Intel PCH Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
    [ 2.071216] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8
    [ 2.071268] input: HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input7
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    [ 2.113324] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
    [ 2.118467] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
    [ 2.119501] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
    [ 2.119535] iTCO_wdt: Found a Panther Point TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
    [ 2.120228] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
    [ 2.122797] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
    [ 2.123577] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x0
    [ 2.123593] asus_wmi: BIOS WMI version: 0.9
    [ 2.123620] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x0
    [ 2.123943] input: Eee PC WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/eeepc-wmi/input/input14
    [ 2.124655] asus_wmi: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver
    [ 2.139754] systemd-udevd[172]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp3s0
    [ 2.159402] Adding 4882428k swap on /dev/sdb6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4882428k FS
    [ 2.173202] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
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    [ 2.179335] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
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    [ 2.380040] systemd-journald[142]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
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    [ 2.399044] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input17
    [ 2.399180] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input16
    [ 2.704632] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: link down
    [ 2.704667] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: link down
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    [ 2.889853] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
    [ 3.436679] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
    [ 3.436683] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
    [ 3.436686] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
    [ 3.436688] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
    [ 3.436690] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
    [ 4.318649] fuse init (API version 7.22)
    [ 5.160446] r8169 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: link up
    [ 5.160458] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp3s0: link becomes ready
    [ 18.971615] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00: GPU-3840b413-5a51-9da2-923a-a4cbb4a5005e
    [ 18.971628] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0003 00000000 0000a097 00002410 00000030 00000000

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