Re: crash recovery
When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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:
You should also check the other important log files
(/var/log/{messages,syslog} etc)
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Michael Iatrou (ktds)
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