[ale] sudo reboot now - harmful??

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

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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