Since dist-upgrade, Debian crashes after a few minutes of using terminal, but only when an external monitor is not being used
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Two months ago I ran a dist-upgrade on my thinkpad work laptop, upgrading from Debian 8 to Debian 9. Since then I have been experiencing issues which I do not know how to troubleshoot, which only occur when a second monitor is attached.
Since then, after a few minutes of using the terminal (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, and x-emulator-terminal all have this problem) my laptop screen become a pure black, with occasional flickering pixels to the left hand side. After a few seconds the laptop turns off. It looks very much like hardware fault (bad screen cable, or something).
However if it was a hardware fault I do not understand why I can browse the internet and run other applications indefinitely without computer crashes, nor why having an external monitor would magic away the problem.
I have tried looking through my /var/log/syslog but I cannot see any messages which appear when the crash occurs, nor any error messages that only appear when a second monitor is not attached. I do often get the message:
Allocating size to GtkScrollbar 0x55a1328f6290 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
I do not know if this related in anyway to this problem.
I cannot find anything on "the internet" with any issues even a little bit similar to this.
Frankly I do not know where to begin troubleshoot this issue.
debian gnome-terminal
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
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Two months ago I ran a dist-upgrade on my thinkpad work laptop, upgrading from Debian 8 to Debian 9. Since then I have been experiencing issues which I do not know how to troubleshoot, which only occur when a second monitor is attached.
Since then, after a few minutes of using the terminal (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, and x-emulator-terminal all have this problem) my laptop screen become a pure black, with occasional flickering pixels to the left hand side. After a few seconds the laptop turns off. It looks very much like hardware fault (bad screen cable, or something).
However if it was a hardware fault I do not understand why I can browse the internet and run other applications indefinitely without computer crashes, nor why having an external monitor would magic away the problem.
I have tried looking through my /var/log/syslog but I cannot see any messages which appear when the crash occurs, nor any error messages that only appear when a second monitor is not attached. I do often get the message:
Allocating size to GtkScrollbar 0x55a1328f6290 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
I do not know if this related in anyway to this problem.
I cannot find anything on "the internet" with any issues even a little bit similar to this.
Frankly I do not know where to begin troubleshoot this issue.
debian gnome-terminal
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
111
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2
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up vote
2
down vote
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Two months ago I ran a dist-upgrade on my thinkpad work laptop, upgrading from Debian 8 to Debian 9. Since then I have been experiencing issues which I do not know how to troubleshoot, which only occur when a second monitor is attached.
Since then, after a few minutes of using the terminal (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, and x-emulator-terminal all have this problem) my laptop screen become a pure black, with occasional flickering pixels to the left hand side. After a few seconds the laptop turns off. It looks very much like hardware fault (bad screen cable, or something).
However if it was a hardware fault I do not understand why I can browse the internet and run other applications indefinitely without computer crashes, nor why having an external monitor would magic away the problem.
I have tried looking through my /var/log/syslog but I cannot see any messages which appear when the crash occurs, nor any error messages that only appear when a second monitor is not attached. I do often get the message:
Allocating size to GtkScrollbar 0x55a1328f6290 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
I do not know if this related in anyway to this problem.
I cannot find anything on "the internet" with any issues even a little bit similar to this.
Frankly I do not know where to begin troubleshoot this issue.
debian gnome-terminal
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
111
Two months ago I ran a dist-upgrade on my thinkpad work laptop, upgrading from Debian 8 to Debian 9. Since then I have been experiencing issues which I do not know how to troubleshoot, which only occur when a second monitor is attached.
Since then, after a few minutes of using the terminal (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, and x-emulator-terminal all have this problem) my laptop screen become a pure black, with occasional flickering pixels to the left hand side. After a few seconds the laptop turns off. It looks very much like hardware fault (bad screen cable, or something).
However if it was a hardware fault I do not understand why I can browse the internet and run other applications indefinitely without computer crashes, nor why having an external monitor would magic away the problem.
I have tried looking through my /var/log/syslog but I cannot see any messages which appear when the crash occurs, nor any error messages that only appear when a second monitor is not attached. I do often get the message:
Allocating size to GtkScrollbar 0x55a1328f6290 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
I do not know if this related in anyway to this problem.
I cannot find anything on "the internet" with any issues even a little bit similar to this.
Frankly I do not know where to begin troubleshoot this issue.
debian gnome-terminal
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
111
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
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asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
111
asked May 2 at 16:25
Kai Salmon
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