Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing
On Tuesday 24 February 2015 18:56:23 Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working
> >
> > I couldn't find an 050 model. Did you mean H50?
>
> Nope, its a Lenovo 050 Desktop from ebuyer.
>
> >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've
> >> had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3
> >> days, even though its on all the time!
> >
> > What OS did it come with Windows 7 or 8? Did the machine crash when
> > running Windows? If yes, you could have a hardware problem. If no,
> > then it's probably a Linux problem.
>
> 8.1, which was very soon removed to install wheezy to upgrade to
> jessie.
>
> > You seemed to have installed Jessie 32-bit based on your other posting
> > -- "installed watchedog" . . . i386.
> >
> > What version of Jessie? It's at RC1 as of 25 Jan.
>
> It was installed on 10th February, a netinstall of wheezy. Then
> upgraded to jessie on the same day.
>
> > Dual boot or did you wipe out Windows?
> >
> > GNOME3 desktop?
>
> Fluxbox, I went into gnome once whilst I installed fluxbox, and
> there I remain.
>
> > Here's what I'd do. Start over from zero. You could have a corrupted
> > install. Wipe out your current Jessie. Download and install the most
> > current 64-bit version. Do a checksum on the download itself and the CD
> > or DVD after burning. Depending on your Internet connection, a
> > netinstall CD will get you an up-to-date system when the
> > install is completed.
>
> Everything is working okay, that crashing was the only problem, so
> thanks, but I'm staying with it as it is. The setup was missing
> "watchdog" which is now installed. But it is a good idea to get a
> new 64-bit version, my install disk was burnt on 28 May 2013 so it
> does need to be replaced.
>
> >> It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crashed overnight
> >> whilst I've been asleep! There does not seem to be any pattern to
> >> it, or any noticeable trigger.
> >>
> >> When it crashes, the screen freezes, and both the usb keyboard and
> >> mouse freeze, and can not be used.
> >
> > Sounds like a kernel crash. Does the screen go black (or another
> > color) like the computer was turned off, or does the desktop image
> > remain?
>
> When it crashed *everything* just froze, the keyboard, the desktop,
> the monitor, time stood still!
>
Did you, by any chance, install a 3.19-trunk Kernel? That one crashes on my
desktop too while 3.18 works flawlessly.
Eike
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