Debian User said: > electric blue colored power supply (call me a trendy bastard I > dont care). What I want is to be able to catch some indication > of what is happening when these lockups occur. > Thanks.
your best bet is use a serial console. Often times logs from such events never make it to the disk before the system dies, but sometimes they can make it to the screen/console. But if your away from the system, it may be in "screensaver" mode and not be "wake-upable" to see the messages on the screen. Or even if it is, usually the ability to scroll up/down is lost when the system dies. serial console works around this(it's helped me on many occasions). I had a BP6 a few years ago and it locked up constantly. randomly, nothing was ever logged to the logs. Spent over a year trying to stabilize it then gave up. you'll need a 2nd computer, a null modem cable, and a terminal emulator(I use minicom). Configure the boot loader and kernel for serial console(there are some HOWTOs on this, it's real easy) then awaaaaaaaaaay you go ..good luck. I reccomend you use a terminal emulator that has logging capabilities, minicom can log. My last problem-chasing session involved logging kernel oops's, the system would have about 30 oops's before panicing, which exceeded the default scroll buffer for minicom. But of course not the log buffer! and if possible, revert as much hardware to it's previous state to eliminate chances that it would be the cause of failure. Also if you can revert kernels that would be good too. Other then X, the kernel is the only thing I can think of that could possibly be involved in a system lockup. If you can reproduce the lockup w/o X, then that is even better. I hate troubleshooting this kinda stuff, takes forever! check the bios for the voltage/temp settings on your system be sure that the power supply is putting out good clear voltage. Though most motherboards will refuse to boot if the voltage isn't good enough, I'd expect the BP6 to do the same. good luck nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
