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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.




  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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