Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 18:47:07 -0700, Kelly Clowers (kelly.clowers@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Over about two days, I have had three hard freezes with Sid/Experimental.
> A few minutes ago, I saw one happen (the others where while I was away).
> The computer instantly went from fully functional, no problems to frozen
> solid. Nothing moving on screen, no response to ctrl-alt-backspace or
> ctrl-alt-del. No response to ping or power button "soft off". The music
> was replace by a fast cycling jittering/buzzing noise. After a hard reset,
> everything is fine.
>
> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update,
> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-9.
>
> I see nothing in syslog - everything is normal and then BAM! - restart.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or advice, that would be great.
> Otherwise, I guess this a warning to be alert for problems.
If/when it happens again, this might be worth a try:
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/sysrq.htm
At least it might prevent/reduce the risk of corruption or whatever.
--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/
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