Re: crash recovery
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:08:18 -0400, tyler (tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca) wrote:
> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck
> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the
> keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared
> fixed, viewing an xpdf window. I couldn't even switch to a terminal to
> poke around there, as C-A-F1 etc. didn't respond.
>
> I'm running Lenny with fluxbox, and had just done an aptitude update. I
> don't recall anything heavy, about 40 packages including iceweasel. I
> had also just plugged in to the wall socket after running on battery
> power for several hours.
>
> I have checked /var/log/Xorg0.log.old, and the only EE messages are:
>
> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
>
> These show up periodically in this file, but not in /var/log/Xorg0.log,
> which I take it is the log for my current session. I use a USB keyboard
> and USB mouse sometimes, so maybe the error is when the keyboard is
> first plugged in or removed?
>
> I don't know where to begin trouble shooting - what's the first step? Is
> there something I can do to make it easier to find the problem if it
> happens again? I had similar problems in the past that I think were
> associated with doing some image manipulation in Inkscape or Gimp that
> were taking all of my RAM and CPU, but I wasn't doing anything like that
> today.
Depending on just how complete your freeze is,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key just *may* be of use when
it happens again.
It might allow you to recover some useful logging if nothing else.
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Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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