Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 19, 2013 7:43 PM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > Darac Marjal writes: > > > This looks like it might be > > http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html . > > Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that >

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
Darac Marjal writes: > This looks like it might be > http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html. > Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that > thread that the change was incorporated into the mainstream

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Dawid Toton
On 04/18/2013 07:41 AM, Bill Harris wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard stops res

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:32:08PM +0100, Bill Harris wrote: > Bill Harris writes: > > > Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so > > I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and > > I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 06:32:08AM -0700, Bill Harris wrote: > Bill Harris writes: > > > Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so > > I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and > > I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and the

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
Bill Harris writes: > Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so > I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and then I shut down again. Then I booted Debian. This time it worked, but I ha

Re: Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Harris
Soare, Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I've had uptimes as long as 136 days. I think the current mode of uptime is around 10-20 days, but it may be longer. I do sense that it's shor

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 06:41:58AM +0100, Bill Harris wrote: > I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually > been > stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it > freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typi

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 11:29 AM, "Soare Catalin" wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > > > I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard sto