Hi everybody.
I have an issue with this laptop, I have randomly freezes (2-3/week) since I bought it (begin of April) and even after doing the update or trying the kernel 3.5.0 .
When freezing, the system totally freeze, no possibility to access to others tty or to do anything else than pushing the power button.
There is already a bug opened on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-sputnik/+bug/1167624, but that could be also a hardware problem.
Any idea how to solve it ?
Thanks,
Matthieu
I experience this as well. I've read that updating the BIOS fixes it, but I haven't done it yet myself. (I'm still on version A2.)
If your system is totally locked up like that, there's one recovery thing to try:
Hold down ALT+PrtScr and then tap each of these keys individually a few seconds apart:
R S E I N U B
You can look up what all this does (each letter progressively starts shutting things down) but the short answer is that it flushes your buffers to disk, attempts to kill processes cleanly, etc., and the 'B' at the end tries a reboot.
There's a mnemonic to remember: Raising Skinny Elephants Is Never Utterly Boring
Thanks for the reply, I have already the last BIOS version available for this one, A08. www.dell.com/.../xps-13-l321x-mlk
(also perhaps you have not the L322X version but the L321X )
@iandouglas736 thanks a lot, I will try this the next time.
I tried ALT+PrtScr and R S E I N U B but nothing happenned..
Try with an externally attached USB keyboard. I've never gotten REISUB to work with the onboard KB, using either Fn+PrtScrn or Fn+SysRq
Even with an externally attached USB keyboard,nothing happen.
Any news on this? How do we hit the SYSRQ on a XPS13?
A kernel update (package linux-image-generic-lts-quantal) fixed this for me, as described at bugs.launchpad.net/.../1167624