On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:21:23PM +0000, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >>> > >>These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or > >>faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way to start could be > >>to replace the DVD reader, if possible. > >> > > > >I was thinking, but didn't say this. To elaborate, a bad/failing > >solder or wire could be getting displaced enough by the action of > >closing the drive resulting in a short and a hard freeze. > > > > What would also be useful though is if I could get a steer on where the > best error log messages for this kind of thing would be on a Deb system. > On Slack I would do, as I did for the original e-mail, is > > tail /var/log/messages > well you could watch kern.log and syslog, but you'll probably not get much more. In my limited experience, hardware faults that cause hard locks don't leave much in the way of a trail of clues... A
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