On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Stefan Strobl wrote: > Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > >On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Stefan Strobl wrote: > > > > > >>There are some more messages which I'm not able to capture. Logging to a > >>file didn't work. After restarting the file's empty... > >> > >> > > > >How hard is the restart - power button, or just ctrl-alt-delete > >(or ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-delete) ? > > > > > I have to power cycle the machine...
In that case the following is less likely to help. > >When working with lockups I sometimes set a 5 minute cron job to sync the > >disks: > >0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /bin/sync > >5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /bin/sync > > > >then when it locks up I wait five minutes before pressing the power > >button. This often gives the machine a chance to write the log to disk. > I don't quite understand? Sometimes the graphics card is locked up, but the cpu is still running; it is just that you can't see what it is doing. If the Xserver is chewing cycles you might not have a keyboard either. In these cases, syncing the disk can flush buffers so that the log file does contain useful info on reboot. You did redirect stdin *and* stderr ( >& in bash) to the logfile ? I can't remember now, does XF_SVGA have options to increase its verbosity ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
