Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

[Peter Davoust]

Actually, one thing I probably should mention is that it hasn't locked up
while running anything GUI yet. Maybe that's just luck of the draw, but it
may be important. Who knows. And to answer your previous question, by crash
I mean it locks up completely. The mouse driver operates for a few seconds,
but after that it's frozen entirely. Not even ctrl+atl+del does it. You
know, the other thing that makes me curious about it being a hardware glitch
is that it does this with gdm, I think (see previous thread: "GDM hates
me"). Well, the last time it locked up was while running emerge --sync,
which I'm running now with no apparent problems... yet.

-Peter

On 5/14/07, Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> I know it doesn't actually burn the cpu, but I'd rather not cook any
> components if I don't have to. From what I know of torture tests, they run
> the cpu so hot it starts making computational errors, am I right? It still
> makes me nervous. I was hoping to be able to fix the issue just by
> recompiling my kernel, but no such luck. I'll mess with it some more and see
> what I can do. Can you give me any advice as to what I should to to a) not
> violate my warrantee and b) avoid killing my computer as much as possible?
> Could it just be something with my Gentoo install? I guess that's a stupid
> question; I've had this problem on an older computer, but it was a Desktop
> and it was much easier to swap components without messing up my warrantee.
> So if it were a hardware problem, wouldn't you think that suse 10.2 would
> have run into it as well? I used to run 10.2 (used to as in 3 days ago)
> for hours on end without any problems at all. I agree that Gentoo can run
> the computer harder, but that doesn't quite click.
>
> -Peter
>
> On 5/14/07, Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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> > Peter Davoust wrote:
> > > Ok, first, while I appreciate your advice, this is a brand new laptop
> > > and there's no way I'm running bonnie++ (that's prime95, right?)
> > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
> > >, or
> > > anything with the words "cpu" and "burn" in the same sentence on this
> > > thing.
> > Well, if you want to get to the bottom of things, you may have to.
> > And in fact, if the laptop is under warranty, you are better off finding
> > out if it is broken now rather than later.
> > Note: cpuburn doesn't burn your cpu (unless your laptop's design is
> > flawed) and it is quite likely to cause a crash if there is a problem
> > with your system.
> >
> > > Memtest86 might be an option as long as it has no potential to
> > > kill anything. I agree, it could be the heat, and that was the first
> > > thing that came to my mind, but Vista boots and runs for long periods
> > of
> > > time with no issues. I'll check it out with the new kernel in the
> > > morning and see what it does.
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