System keeps locking, how do I find out what happens?

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 20:46, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> By locked I mean that I can't get a response from the mouse and that the
> time on the top bar, which I have set to include seconds, stops
> incrementing.
>
> I've found from a search REISUB and on hitting the R the system has been
> released, although more often than not I have to complete the sequence.
>   However on the last occurrence I tried not even the keyboard worked so
> it was power off and start again.
>
> So which logs should I be looking in to ascertain what is going on as
> this is obviously extremely irritating?  Please spell it out in idiot
> terms as I'm not a linux expert, thanks :-)

This sounds to me most likely to be broken hardware, though not necessarily.
Look in /var/log/syslog after you reboot and look back to before the
boot start.  I suspect you may find that it just stopped suddenly.

Colin

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