From: "Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:30:30 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342e1090810131630v306f6c37v5b2de6e3e0cd5cdc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810121108.57840.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at>
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr
<alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> wrote:
> 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.
>
I had one of this freezes today.
Simply killed X using CTRL+SYSREQ+K and got back a console with error messages.
Have you tried the SYSREQ keys?
--
Daniel da Veiga
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 9:08 [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened? Alexander Puchmayr
2008-10-12 9:16 ` 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 [this message]
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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