From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 08:02:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddda74e6-98c9-134b-fa8e-b17d9ccc3b45@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1943989105.20190719084826@xss.de>
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On 7/19/19 2:48 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death "jdm" <jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk>,
> 19.07.2019, 07:28:
>
> > I have updated firmware line in kernel as this now includes a few extra
> > lines so not loading all of the available firmware.
>
> > Thanks for advice and I'll see how I get on.
>
> Can you trigger the crash by (over-)exerting the system?
>
> A few years ago I had a box with 4x4GB of RAM and a similar
> crash only occurred during heavy load, say recompiling gcc
> with -j 9. Turned out that _two_ of the four RAM modules were
> faulty. And statistical evidence led me to the conclusion
> that those were only used when the first 8GB were exhausted.
>
> If you can spare the box for a day, boot into memtest and
> let it run for at least 12 hours.
>
> s.
Also, check if you have cpu isolation turned off in your kernel - when
its on causes this type of crash.
Bill K.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-18 22:29 [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death jdm
2019-07-18 23:30 ` gentoo-user
2019-07-19 0:59 ` Adam Carter
2019-07-19 5:09 ` jdm
2019-07-19 5:28 ` jdm
2019-07-19 6:48 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2019-08-01 0:02 ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2019-07-19 10:59 ` Mick
[not found] ` <20190718233058.01FAEE07AE@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2019-07-19 11:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-19 12:27 ` Rich Freeman
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2009-01-15 5:08 Rick Harris
2009-01-15 18:49 ` John
2009-01-14 18:58 John
2009-01-14 19:41 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-14 21:02 ` John
2009-01-14 22:13 ` John
2009-01-14 22:26 ` Dale
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