From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kowwh-0007KM-HH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:09:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90901E03DC; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from puchmayr.linznet.at (puchmayr.linznet.at [80.66.46.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054ADE03EA for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5489 invoked by uid 210); 12 Oct 2008 09:08:59 -0000 Received: from zeus.puchmayr.linznet.at by hephaestos (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-2.02st (clamdscan: 0.94/8412. f-prot: 4.6.7/3.16.15. spamassassin: 3.2.1. perlscan: 2.02st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.2):. Processed in 0.204327 secs); 12 Oct 2008 09:08:59 -0000 Received: from zeus.puchmayr.linznet.at (192.168.1.2) by hephaestos.puchmayr.linznet.at with SMTP; 12 Oct 2008 09:08:58 -0000 From: Alexander Puchmayr 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Organization: Fa Linznet Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810121108.57840.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> X-Archives-Salt: f3f7a100-85ae-4b28-b210-289bf060b112 X-Archives-Hash: 381e8ea03430e49fdff55e8fe454e150 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