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Re: new machine froze, how to debug



On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:53:08AM -0700, Krzys Majewski (majewski@cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
> Oh man, after reading all these scary faulty-hardware posts I shook
> in my boots a little after coming home and finding my new machine 
> frozen solid. It was running xseti at the time FWIW. 
> Where should I start looking?

System logs.  Disks on startup fsck.

When did the system crash?  What logs were last modified?  What do they
say?

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