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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] random reboots
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:51:58
Message-Id: 7bef1f890907101150j19cdb738v3e9242c740083349@mail.gmail.com
1 Thank you to members of this list who have gotten me through a couple
2 of serious issues. I have another one.
3
4 My system reboots at seemingly random times. Usually, this happens
5 during keyboard or mouse input. I have been using kernel 2.6.30-r2.
6 Often this happens when using firefox, but not exclusively.
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8 When I checked my machine, it had an uptime of nearly 4 hours after
9 the last reboot, when I had not logged in. However, after logging in,
10 I experienced two reboots in rapid succession.
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12 Interestingly, after I recompiled the kernel, enabling more modules of
13 I2C stuff, to enable hardware monitoring for my Motherboard, the
14 system has seemed to become less stable, and reboots readily.
15
16 I usually use nvidia non-freedom drivers. I am now typing with the
17 x11 drivers, and the system has not rebooted. I am now also using
18 2.6.29-r5.
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20 Once such things happened to me because I had a file with a filename
21 starting with "_" in my filesystem. Everytime I started nautilus,
22 firefox, or epiphany, the system would crash. This was some long time
23 ago.
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25 I have three SATA drives installed, with a plethora of partitions.
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27 I am not sure where to look in logs to look for evidence of problems.
28 May I set up the system to trap for such useful information?
29
30 Alan Davis
31
32 "...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but
33 you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces."
34
35 -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] random reboots Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] random reboots Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>