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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:30:30 -0200
From: "Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?
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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