Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-19 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! As my system froze again right now, I've tried to reproduce it, tried to use some of the hints given to me in this thread, and made the following observations: * The system freezes on heavy I/O on my sata-harddisks, especially when copying mpeg-files (2GB) from one disk to another.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-14 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Alexander Puchmayr writes: On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I had one of this freezes today. Simply killed X using CTRL+SYSREQ+K and got back a console with error messages. Have you tried the SYSREQ keys? How does this work? I've tried it but I didn't get this

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/10/12 Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). If you have another machine lying around, try setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm

[gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Erik Hahn
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what happened, why it crashed? Modern systems have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Erik Hahn: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Since I'm using the box as desktop, I have only a frozen X-server and no possibility to switch to console (maybe there's some hint whats happened?). How do I find out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the console. It's just hidden behind the X server. Maybe you can reproduce the problem working without X (If you can do your work purely from the VTs) I've tried,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:12:20 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: If it's a kernel panic you actually get debugging information on the console. It's just hidden behind the X server. Maybe you can reproduce the problem working without X (If