Comment 85 for bug 946899

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fsando (fsando) wrote : Re: [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung

Will it help to upload log files etc?

I take a snaptshot of dmesg, i915_error_state and Xorg.0.log every time it happens. I have a ton of those files.

I put this bash script in my home folder and run it:

#!/bin/bash
# create a date for filenames
datestr=$(date '+%F-%H%M%S')
# snapshot of files
sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_error_state > zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-i915_error_state.txt
dmesg > zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-dmesg-gpu-hang.txt
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-Xorg.0.log-gpu-hang.txt
# write to screen the create files
echo zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-i915_error_state.txt
echo zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-dmesg-gpu-hang.txt
echo zz-hung-gpu/$datestr-Xorg.0.log-gpu-hang.txt