On 13/11/17 04:42 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Sonntag, 12. November 2017, 20:11:41 CET schrieb Michael: >> Hello ladies and gentleman. Well darktable seems to be causing my system to >> reboot and on a rare occasion to crash. I think it is the video card (it >> only reboots when I am running darktable and after I perform some edits on >> a photo) but I've been told it may be something else. What can I do to nail >> done this elusive 'something else'? It was suggested to me to try to get >> another program to reboot the system but thr only other thing that I could >> think of that might use the video card was photivo but it did not crash the >> system. > > Did you have a look in your system logs? Maybe the kernel had a chance to put > something there before it went south.
+1 To get to basics: Et is either hardware or software. it may seem a trivial statement, but it is the beginning of what I would term a "diagnostics tree". Other parts of the global Industrial Complex use the term "Failure Mode Effect Analysis". The point is that it is methodical and you document what you do so that it is not a shot-gun approach, you don't repeat, and when we ask a question here you can answer it coherently. Building the tree might require knowledge you don't have. For example there may be a bug in the stepping of the CPU on your mobo that makes a particular command crash the CPU. You are not expected to know that. But you have a fantastic team out here, and the great resource of the Internet. You are not expected to build a huge and comprehensive tree to start with, just recognise "areas of investigation" and a structure whereby you record what you are doing and lines of investigation. Personally I view building such trees, doing such investigation like "vacuum the carpet" You push the vacuum cleaner out, then follow it, and so may incremental progress. You may branch out in different directions. However you do this: KEEP RECORDS -- Call 226682779489712859637199678587902423107 for a good prime! ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
