Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:42:44 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > 2) checking how hot the cpu is getting (Doesn't appear to be a >problem) But now running a cron job recording temperatures every 10 >minutes. So that may turn up something. You could also check disk temperatures with app-admin/hddt

Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've been experiencing spontaneous reboots on one gentoo machine >> lately. Looking thru /var/log/messages... I see the restarts but >> looking above that... I'm not seeing anything I recognize as being a >> culprit

Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Saphirus Sage
On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: So the problem started recently. That means it is either: a cap going bad. oxidized contacts. dust clogging the fans. PSU is going bad. something obscure. Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and memory modules

Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
So the problem started recently. That means it is either: a cap going bad. oxidized contacts. dust clogging the fans. PSU is going bad. something obscure. Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them deformed? The 'h

Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been experiencing spontaneous reboots on one gentoo machine > lately. Looking thru /var/log/messages... I see the restarts but > looking above that... I'm not seeing anything I recognize as being a > culprit. > > Its been happening for a

[gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for

2009-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been experiencing spontaneous reboots on one gentoo machine lately. Looking thru /var/log/messages... I see the restarts but looking above that... I'm not seeing anything I recognize as being a culprit. Its been happening for a few weeks... but I've been busy and only now digging into it (