From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSACZ-0002td-UD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:48:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74A28E0901; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.nexicom.net (dell.nexicom.net [216.168.96.13]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B09E0901 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lockie.ca (dyn-dsl-mb-66-79-239-202.nexicom.net [66.79.239.202]) by smtp.nexicom.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o5PEkjKW030915 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:46 -0400 Received: by mail.lockie.ca (Postfix, from userid 1401) id C301298577; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from webmail.lockie.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lockie.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382969842B for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 72.1.218.226 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bjlockie) by webmail.lockie.ca with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:45 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:46:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted From: "James L" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20 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 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d0940161-746c-4a43-a787-97ee74341068 X-Archives-Hash: 5d4c55359fafd28e9194c0810faee20f > 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 fo= r > ~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 settin= g > 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.