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On Saturday 15 Sep 2012 17:28:26 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> Well, it turns out it was my PSU. The voltage drop on the 5V line was |
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> 4.08, but it would slowly warm up to 4.95V, then the PC would behave |
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> normally. I opened the PSU and there was a ruptured cap. |
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> I've replaced it and the problems are all gone. |
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> I guess it was not really a coincidence that the failure happened after |
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> a major update. This isn't the first time an `emerge -pvuDN world` |
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> killed my computer. :-) |
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> Dan |
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> On 09/13/2012 07:20 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> > On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x |
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> >>> series. My old 2.6.x kernel ... |
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> >> |
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> >> FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A |
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> >> quote: |
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> >> |
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> >> So what are the big changes? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we |
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> >> have the usual two thirds driver |
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> >> changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is |
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> >> *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a |
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> >> Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at |
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> >> all like that. |
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> >> |
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> >> You can read his entire letter here: |
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> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204 |
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> >> |
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> >> Chris |
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> > When I updated, I knew about changes in 3.2 that affected USB keyboard |
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> > wake in suspend (& mostly how it deals with acpi. Most of the stuff |
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> > moved to /sys/devices, the normal /proc/acpi/wakeup didn't really do |
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> > anything.) This affected many users over many distros. |
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> > It also changed how lirc works, although that happened around 2.6.38??, |
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> > so my htpc frontend is still on 2.6.32. When I tried updating that |
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> > machine to 3.0, nothing worked and I spent about a day troubleshooting |
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> > it before I put the image I took of it before I upgraded it back on. |
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> > |
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> > Dan |
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I was also replacing capacitors last weekend. It is a good idea to upgrade |
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them if there are alternatives of a higher maximum temperature as they will |
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probably last longer. A belts & braces approach is to add another/larger case |
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fan to keep the in-case temperatures lower. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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