Comment 122 for bug 1321623

@s-matt, I have to disagree. Search the thread and you'll see at least two people reporting using Intel Graphics, not nvidia.

And in any case, I'd like to report my system as a third one.

It's a fairly new Acer Aspire E 15 (E5-573-55U8), with Intel HD Graphics 4400 and 16 GB of RAM. I just installed Linux Mint 18.1 MATE 64-bit on it a few days ago, and it is normally stable, but I can consistently get it to hard freeze (mouse cursor frozen, cannot switch via ctrl+alt+f1 to a console, only recourse is to hold down the power button) by trying to compile something.

Steps to reproduce (there may be easier ones, but this is what I have so far):

1. install openfl from http://openfl.org
2. download http://terrycavanaghgames.com/tinyheist/tinyheist_src_v10.zip (a small video game)
3. unzip it
4. in its directory, run the command: lime build linux

This, every time, will get stuck on some file (__resources__.cpp or ApplicationMain.cpp) and after 5-15 minutes will cause a hard freeze.

example syslog leading up to freeze (and then last line is after reboot):

Jan 24 07:00:17 kev-Aspire-E5-573 ntpd[1720]: 217.147.223.78 local addr 192.168.178.87 -> <null>
Jan 24 07:05:45 kev-Aspire-E5-573 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2236]: Vector smash protection is enabled.
Jan 24 07:05:45 kev-Aspire-E5-573 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2236]: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jan 24 07:11:07 kev-Aspire-E5-573 kernel: [ 1817.444068] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: no channel configured; ignoring frame(s)!
Jan 24 07:11:07 kev-Aspire-E5-573 kernel: [ 1817.546866] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: no channel configured; ignoring frame(s)!
Jan 24 07:14:20 kev-Aspire-E5-573 kernel: [ 2010.541589] perf interrupt took too long (2505 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
Jan 24 07:15:19 kev-Aspire-E5-573 kernel: [ 2069.226374] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: no channel configured; ignoring frame(s)!
Jan 24 07:16:23 kev-Aspire-E5-573 kernel: [ 2133.601460] ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: no channel configured; ignoring frame(s)!
Jan 24 07:17:01 kev-Aspire-E5-573 CRON[8159]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 24 07:23:08 kev-Aspire-E5-573 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.16.0" x-pid="1133" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start

You can watch the cpu usage during compiling, and it follows a pattern of one core being at 100% for a number of seconds, then that one going to normal and a different one to 100%, alternating like this between the two.

There may well be something wrong with compiling this project, but it shouldn't cause a hard freeze. I think it's sustained CPU load related as stated by others in this thread.