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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after |
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> several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about |
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> it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze? |
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What was it running at the time? (Was it *truly* idle or was it just |
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not running userspace applications?) |
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Was this in X or on the command line? It it was in X, have you tried |
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the Magic SysReq Keys (provided that you have that compiled into the |
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kernel; there have been many threads on this mailing list with more |
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details, you can search for it)? |
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If you reboot, is there anything suspicious in /var/log? |
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Is this recurring, or has it only happened this one time? |
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Have you performed any software/firmware/hardware updates recently? |
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These are just some of the questions that immediately pop into my |
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head. If you provide more information, I'm sure the list can help you |
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sort this out. |
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Cheers, |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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