Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +0000, andy wrote:
If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular)
when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer
with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the
keyboard, mouse and power buttons are all useless. I can eject the newly
inserted media but that doesn't change anything.
The only option I have is to pull the plug at the back and reboot. This
is a right royal PITA because if I am in the middle of some work, or
have some unbookmarked links open in a browser or a draft e-mail being
edited, I loose all of that work.
These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or
faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way to start could be
to replace the DVD reader, if possible.
I was thinking, but didn't say this. To elaborate, a bad/failing
solder or wire could be getting displaced enough by the action of
closing the drive resulting in a short and a hard freeze.
A
Thanks Andrew. Of course, that is possible, but as this system (box) is
about 2 months' old (from the store, non-display) that would be less
probable. However, as I noted to Sven earlier, while I could easily
change drives, the problem is too intermittent to willingly reproduce.
What I might do is play around over the weekend with some video to DVD
conversions and DVD burning, play a few music CDs, and see if it does it
again. Then I'll swap DVD-drives and see if I can make it happen again.
What would also be useful though is if I could get a steer on where the
best error log messages for this kind of thing would be on a Deb system.
On Slack I would do, as I did for the original e-mail, is
tail /var/log/messages
This obviously gives me useful output, but is there any other error log
that would be useful to know about?
Thanks folks
A
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