On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote:
> Hello,
> My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after
> several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about
> it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze?
What was it running at the time? (Was it *truly* idle or was it just
not running userspace applications?)
Was this in X or on the command line? It it was in X, have you tried
the Magic SysReq Keys (provided that you have that compiled into the
kernel; there have been many threads on this mailing list with more
details, you can search for it)?
If you reboot, is there anything suspicious in /var/log?
Is this recurring, or has it only happened this one time?
Have you performed any software/firmware/hardware updates recently?
These are just some of the questions that immediately pop into my
head. If you provide more information, I'm sure the list can help you
sort this out.
Cheers,
W
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