Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> > >  |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing.  It will stay up for about 30
> minutes
> > >  |> and then stop responding altogether.  I've checked the logs but
> there
> > >  |> is nothing informative there.  I'm all up to date with packages.
> How
> > >  |> do you troubleshoot something like this?
> > >  |>
> > >  |> - Grant
> > >  |
> > >  | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp.
> > >  +1 to that.  I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing.  I
> > >  installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C
> > >  (that's with powersave enabled).  When I compiled the temp would go up
> > >  to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.*  A /little/ over
> 40
> > >  is too hot...
> > >
> > >  *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it,
> > >  subtract 10% and add 32.  So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The laptop has stopped freezing now.  Not sure what was going on.
> > Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to.
> >
> > - Grant
> >
> >
>
>  Do you recall what you did?  Recompile a package?  Blow out some dust
> bunnies?  Cross your toes?

I believe it stopped freezing after it's periodic ext3 filesystem
check after a reboot, but it didn't report any type of error after the
check.  Another possibility was upgrading to xscreensaver-5.05 from
5.04.  Overall I'm puzzled but happy.

- Grant

>  Dale
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