Bug 117771

Summary: System hangs on Asus X751M laptop
Product: Other Reporter: shdownnine
Component: OtherAssignee: other_other
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocking    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.4.0, 4.5.0, 4.6-rc6, 4.6 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: output of lspci -vvv

Description shdownnine 2016-05-07 19:04:18 UTC
Created attachment 215501 [details]
output of lspci -vvv

I use Debian testing on Asus X751M laptop, and at random moments the system just
hangs so I have to reboot it by holding the power button. The Fn buttons stop working too, and the sound also stops.

I tried pressing AltSysRq+R, then Alt+SysRq+B, but it does not work (it does
work before the system hangs). I configured journald to write logs to disk, but
after the hang there is nothing additional to what the kernel has printed before
it. I have compiled the 4.6-rc6 kernel, but it did not help.

I also have a graphics issue, but I don't know if it is related. I will report 
it as a separate bug and post a link.
Comment 1 shdownnine 2016-05-08 11:05:05 UTC
Reported the graphics issue as
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94605#c7
It seems to be unrelated, as the screen does not go black on 4.4.0, but the
hang still occurs.
Comment 2 shdownnine 2016-05-26 18:59:09 UTC
4.6 hangs too. This time I had a watchdog set up, but it just shut my machine down instead of rebooting it. If I manually "time out" the watchdog, it reboots the machine normally.

Any advises how to track it down?