>> >> 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! >> > > I don't want to revert hardware just yet, I hope to figure > out > what actually is the problem first. The one thing I have > been > able to determine is that the lockups only seem to happen > when > X is being displayed. I can be logged in, being done with > my > work, CNTL-ALT-F1 to vt1 and walk away, and it runs for > days > (I still boot into windows for games quite often). But I've > sat in front of it working for 10-12 hours and have no > problems. Mostly it locks up when I go away, once I'd been > working for 2 hours, and answered the door, and it was dead > when I got back. When it locks up there is no warning, it > just > freezes. I've disabled screen savers, but that didn't help. > But then several times it has lockedup while I was actively > working on it. I usually have a couple of setiathomes > running, > but running them or not doesn't seem to influence when it > happens. > Right now I am testing a boot option I found on the web, > setting it to noapic, as I could occasionally see APIC > errors > in the logs, but they didn't really coorelate, I might get > some 4 hours before a crash or 48 hours. > What writes to the /var/log/debug? Is there anyway to set > logging to a higher level on it? > >
No APIC errors but I've had my first crash since setting noapic. I left the machine logged in, it happened about six hours after I went to bed. Oh well.... And not a clue as to what happened in the logs. I start throwing hardware at problems like this at work, but then again I use windows at work (and I don't have parts department at home). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
