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> Remy Blank wrote: |
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> my laptop powers off by itself after a few |
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> hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue, |
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> but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen |
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> went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for |
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> ~30 seconds, before the laptop powered off. This seems to be a strong |
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> hint at a kernel panic. |
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> Unfortunately, as I was in X, I didn't get to see the panic, and it |
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> wasn't logged either. Does anyone know how to get the kernel panic |
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> message in such a case? I have enabled remote logging with syslog-ng, |
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> but I suspect that this won't be enough. I have found kdump, but setting |
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> it up seems to be quite tricky. |
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> -- Remy |
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Turn off all power management software. |
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My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up |
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crashing it. |
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