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Sorry for delay; been trying to get a better handle on the behavior; seems to happen frequently during video playbacks like youtube; but sometime does it when nothing running except desktop. To answer your questions: Crtl + Alt + F1 does NOT return as a console with a prompt; BUT once out of 20 or so times the follow up with Ctrl + Alt + F7 returned a partially functioning desktop.

I have run memtest for an hour with no failures. Looked for additional video drivers; no luck. It runs Intel video driver. I have a friend who tried pinging it through the network with no results. Latest crash this a.m. Radmin no tray icon.

You may only add up to 5 items for comparison at one time. Mini-PC Barebone (BRIX) GB-BXBT-1900.

Was during a youtube video and looking in CRASH folder the filename points toward the date and time software. Edited by surfsider, 09 June 2017 - 03:41 PM.

This post was written by on March 12, 2017 Posted Under:, Intro These are my jots as I installed Linux Mint 18.1 on a Gigabyte GB-BACE-3160 Compact PC with a 240 GB SSD hard disk and 8 GB RAM, for the purpose of driving my TV in the living room. Not all issues are solved yet.

General notes • Use ssh -X. It allows X-windows to open on the calling computer. • Uname: Linux tv 4.4.0-53-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 15:59:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux • Mint 18.1 (“Serena”) is a derivative of Ubuntu 16.04 (“Xenial”). This can be verified by looking at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list. • There are a lot of intel_* utilities to look at installed.

• Unsolved problem: System boots up with kswap0 taking 100% CPU, and no desktop comes up. The problem seems to be that since there’s no swap on my system + the “cinnamon” process running at 100%, requesting more and more memory until it runs out, and kswap0 tries to fix it. WORKAROUND: Kill, as root, the “mdm” process, father of the X window tree. This restarts cinnamon.

Bad omen: cinnamon gets stuck sometimes and sometimes not, even in subsequent overlayfs mode bootups (so all files in the filesystems were the same initially). There is nothing that stands out in.xsession-errors on a failed boot vs. A successful one (from cold or after killing mdm). • There’s still an issue with mouse pointer traces (in particular going on and off the shutdown confirmation dialog box), and it seems to be an HDMI-only issue. The disappearing and sluggish mouse seems to have been solved by disabling the splash on Grub (which plays with the DRM). • Desktop background image: $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri '/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg' Installation flow • BIOS is invoked by pressing the “Delete” button (constantly) during powerup • Changed the OS in the BIOS to Linux (not clear why it matters) • Always power on when AC power is applied: In the BIOS menu, Chipset > Restore AC Power Loss set to “Power on”.