On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine > for > nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) > scrollock and capslock LED blinking). > > Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no > possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). > > How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have > MCE-logs, but how do I read it in this case? After reboot, all information > seems to be gone since mcelog is always empty. > > I assume there's some problem with some hardware, I already tested RAM with > memtest86, but no errors. >
I had one of this freezes today. Simply killed X using CTRL+SYSREQ+K and got back a console with error messages. Have you tried the SYSREQ keys? -- Daniel da Veiga
