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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes |
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> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there |
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> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How |
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> do you troubleshoot something like this? |
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The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the |
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user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile |
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the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it |
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is panicking, so I can see at a glance that the omelette has hit the |
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fan. |
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So: |
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a) This freezing behaviour, does it manifest only in X, or does it |
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happen if you boot into a non-graphical environment? |
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b) If both, is it possible to have your laptop on a private network |
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with ssh/telnet listening? If so, please see if after the freezing |
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behaviour, you can still telnet/ssh into the laptop? If you can, can |
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you run top from the terminal and see if anything is just taking up |
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100% resource? |
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Other things to check: |
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c) could your laptop be overheating? |
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d) is this a new phenomenon or something that has happened |
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consistently since the dawn of time? i.e. did you update any software |
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recently or is this something that just happened right out of the box |
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with your spanking new hardware? |
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e) If this is a spanking new machine, and if it comes with one of |
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the bastard OSes pre-installed, does this also happen running that |
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operating system? (Maybe you are due a refund?) |
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HTH, |
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