From: "James L" <bjlockie@lockie.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbe787a9f50e12a9f1b72f5cf44b2717.squirrel@webmail.lockie.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i028qv$b9k$1@dough.gmane.org>
> Remy Blank wrote:
> my laptop powers off by itself after a few
> hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue,
> but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen
> went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for
> ~30 seconds, before the laptop powered off. This seems to be a strong
> hint at a kernel panic.
>
> Unfortunately, as I was in X, I didn't get to see the panic, and it
> wasn't logged either. Does anyone know how to get the kernel panic
> message in such a case? I have enabled remote logging with syslog-ng,
> but I suspect that this won't be enough. I have found kdump, but setting
> it up seems to be quite tricky.
>
> -- Remy
Turn off all power management software.
My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up
crashing it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-24 22:53 [gentoo-user] xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted Remy Blank
2010-06-25 12:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2010-06-25 14:46 ` James L [this message]
2010-06-25 16:09 ` Remy Blank
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