From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3696E1381F3 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A9B2E0975; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out8.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out8.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0930E094F for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:04:52 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoJAP4yulF8qdgC/2dsb2JhbABagwkxgzy4R4J5BAQBgQIWdIIjAQEFIw8BRRELDQsCAgUWCwICCQMCAQIBRRMIAQGICalRkViBJo4kFoI2gRQDiR6OI4YfI4sAgxwv X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,861,1363104000"; d="scan'208";a="133048290" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.216.2]) by icp-osb-irony-out8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 14 Jun 2013 05:04:50 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432DD2458F for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:04:50 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LHGR_g1Bh9id for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:04:15 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.3] (moriah [192.168.44.3]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26563205A for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:04:15 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <51BA33CF.5020009@iinet.net.au> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:04:15 +0800 From: William Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130609 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way of tracing kernel freezes? References: <20130613134746.GA3283@nukleus.lan> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: c7bf4788-153d-4717-8abd-069c38afe57e X-Archives-Hash: caabdb58bce97fdabddcb2e170aac9d3 On 13/06/13 22:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/06/13 16:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. [...] >> [...] >> I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful >> passes. I might try that again as soon as I find out how¹, but I'd >> think that a corrupt memory would cause something different than a full >> freeze. > > It usually manifests in segfaults that seem to come at random. But it's > still worth a shot. It's very easy. Emerge "sys-apps/memtest86+" and > add this grub entry: > > title=Memtest86+ > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin > > (Adapt the "hd0,0" of course to be the same disk as the one you're using > to boot your kernel.) > > That's it. Now your boot menu will include a "Memtest86+" option. This > is for grub 1 though. If you migrated to grub 2 by now, then I don't > know how that boot entry would look like. I suspect it will be some > 300-line monstrosity or something :-| > > Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc. BillK