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On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr |
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<alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at> wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> MY gentoo system (an amd64@4400+, 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for |
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> nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) |
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> scrollock and capslock LED blinking). |
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> Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no |
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> possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). |
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> How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have |
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> MCE-logs, but how do I read it in this case? After reboot, all information |
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> seems to be gone since mcelog is always empty. |
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> I assume there's some problem with some hardware, I already tested RAM with |
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> memtest86, but no errors. |
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I had one of this freezes today. |
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Simply killed X using CTRL+SYSREQ+K and got back a console with error messages. |
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Have you tried the SYSREQ keys? |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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