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Thank you to members of this list who have gotten me through a couple |
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of serious issues. I have another one. |
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My system reboots at seemingly random times. Usually, this happens |
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during keyboard or mouse input. I have been using kernel 2.6.30-r2. |
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Often this happens when using firefox, but not exclusively. |
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When I checked my machine, it had an uptime of nearly 4 hours after |
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the last reboot, when I had not logged in. However, after logging in, |
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I experienced two reboots in rapid succession. |
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Interestingly, after I recompiled the kernel, enabling more modules of |
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I2C stuff, to enable hardware monitoring for my Motherboard, the |
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system has seemed to become less stable, and reboots readily. |
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I usually use nvidia non-freedom drivers. I am now typing with the |
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x11 drivers, and the system has not rebooted. I am now also using |
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2.6.29-r5. |
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Once such things happened to me because I had a file with a filename |
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starting with "_" in my filesystem. Everytime I started nautilus, |
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firefox, or epiphany, the system would crash. This was some long time |
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ago. |
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I have three SATA drives installed, with a plethora of partitions. |
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I am not sure where to look in logs to look for evidence of problems. |
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May I set up the system to trap for such useful information? |
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Alan Davis |
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"...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but |
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you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." |
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-- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz |