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From: Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:08:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810121108.57840.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> (raw)

Hi there!

MY gentoo system (an amd64@4400+, 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. 

Thanks for suggestions
    Alex



             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-12  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-12  9:08 Alexander Puchmayr [this message]
2008-10-12  9:16 ` [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened? Erik Hahn
2008-10-12 11:12   ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-12 11:35     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-12 13:00       ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-13 15:09 ` Duane Griffin
2008-10-13 23:30 ` Daniel da Veiga
2008-10-14 16:31   ` Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-14 17:09     ` Alex Schuster
2008-10-19  9:58 ` Alexander Puchmayr

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