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> > > |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 |
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> minutes |
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> > > |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but |
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> there |
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> > > |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. |
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> How |
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> > > |> do you troubleshoot something like this? |
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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 |
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> 40 |
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> > > is too hot... |
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> > > |
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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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> > |
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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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I believe it stopped freezing after it's periodic ext3 filesystem |
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check after a reboot, but it didn't report any type of error after the |
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check. Another possibility was upgrading to xscreensaver-5.05 from |
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5.04. Overall I'm puzzled but happy. |
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- Grant |
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> Dale |
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