I've been recently running into problems with my laptop freezing. The keyboard is unresponsive, so switching to a tty is not possible. I also cannot ssh into my laptop from a different computer (it doesn't even respond to pings!). Even after waiting for hours, the system will remain frozen; I have no other choice except to hold the power button.
I'm not doing anything that intense (in my opinion) before these freezes occur: I'll usually have a Virtualbox sql server running in the background, as well as Eclipse and Firefox ESR. I've done a lot worse to this laptop before without any problems so I'm fairly confident that it's not overheating... And as far as I know, I'm not running out of memory or disk space.
The kernel I'm currently using is: x86_64 Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (I've tried updating to the latest 4.x kernel, however that seemed to lead to more hangs).
Everything else is up to date, I'm using the stable/non-free update repos
The Laptop I'm using is an Asus X553MA with 1TB disk space, 8GB of RAM, Intel N3530 2.16GHz processor.
Output of lspci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 0f23 (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f48 (rev 0e)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f4a (rev 0e)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0f4e (rev 0e)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB EHCI (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 0f12 (rev 0e)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5286 (rev 01)
03:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 06)
I've also played around with BIOS settings after each crash; turning off secure-boot / fast-boot doesn't seem to have any effect.
Any advice is much appreciated
Thanks!
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EDIT: marking as solved, cstate seems to have worked
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