[ale] sudo reboot now - harmful??

[Dustin Strickland]

Ah, welll... Sorry, but that's about all the input I can provide. I don't
know what sort of software you're using, nor how it works, so I can't say
with any certainty that shutting down the system will cause the program to
misbehave.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Hi Dustin,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  All the gpus are busy with cryptocurrency
> calculations.  I run the one that the monitor is attached to at a lower
> intensity and it's usually fine.  So, there's no other gpu to attach the
> monitor to.  Just once in a while, the gui locks up.  I'm not too worried
> about that but was mainly wondering if doing the sudo reboot now command is
> dangerous to the system since it reboots so quickly.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Dustin Strickland <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >It sounds like a hardware problem, some sort of corrupted system
> >settings,
> >or possibly a conflict between whatever computations you're doing on
> >the
> >GPU and the actual graphics. First, try to connect your monitor to the
> >on-board graphics or another graphics card, if that's available.
> >
> >
> >On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> My Mint machine occasionally gets unresponsive in the GUI (Mate
> >(Gnome2))
> >> such that I cannot log into the system and check it's status.  The
> >screen
> >> saver goes away when I hit a key, the Mint screen appears, but no
> >login
> >> window is visible.  I'm running the gpu's very hard doing
> >computations.  In
> >> that case, I hit ctrl-alt-f1, login, and do sudo reboot now.  The
> >system
> >> starts the reboot sequence VERY fast, within a couple of seconds.
> >>
> >> So, the question is, is that harmful?  Is the file system dismounted
> >> properly?  Are programs shut down orderly?  The programs I'm running
> >are
> >> network based, so they don't have to save files.  The only files
> >being
> >> operated on normally are the temperature log file, and that gets
> >recreated
> >> every 15 seconds.
> >>
> >> When I rebooted, the system complained about errors on / and asked if
> >I
> >> wanted to fix them.  I said yes.  Then it complained about /tmp not
> >being
> >> there or not mounted.  I waited a few seconds and that went away.
> >I'm not
> >> sure if it defaulted to one of the options on the screen or just did
> >> nothing.  Then the system rebooted and everything appears normal.
> >>
> >> I should note that we had an unplanned power failure last night due
> >to a
> >> thunderstorm.  I rebooted the machine then and it looked fine.  I
> >found out
> >> this morning that the last time the temperature log file updated was
> >around
> >> 7:30 AM.  I'm not too worried about the GUI locking up, considering
> >what
> >> I'm doing with the gpu's.  However, I am wondering if my force reboot
> >> technique is causing a problem.
> >>
> >> As always, any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >>
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