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Grant wrote: |
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>> |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes |
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>> |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there |
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>> |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How |
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>> |> do you troubleshoot something like this? |
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>> |> |
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>> |> - Grant |
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>> | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp. |
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>> +1 to that. I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing. I |
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>> installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C |
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>> (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up |
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>> to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40 |
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>> is too hot... |
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>> *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it, |
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>> subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F. |
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> The laptop has stopped freezing now. Not sure what was going on. |
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> Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to. |
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> - Grant |
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Do you recall what you did? Recompile a package? Blow out some dust |
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bunnies? Cross your toes? |
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Just curious. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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