On 12/06/2017 03:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a different X, without awesome. But that crash might be a hardware issue: quite some time ago the inverter for this machine was replaced by a new one.Chances that it's a hardware issue become dimmer: I ran the Apple hardware test CD on that machine: no problems were found, says the test program. And I ran the extensive test ....
X ran fine last time I tested on my iBook G4 in any case. I tested around 2-3 months ago with Debian unstable. You should start a netconsole and then capture the kernel panic from a second machine, see [1]. Adrian
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netconsole
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