Dodgy ram has always been the cause of lockups for me. On 29 Apr 2011 22:43, "StarLion" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hallo all. Got a bit of a puzzler for you to... well, puzzle over. Finally gave in and put Arch on me new(er) laptop, set myself up a KDE desktop, personalise, etc... the usual post-install kind of things. Now, I've often got downloads I leave going overnight while I sleep, which wouldn't be a problem... except at some point in the night the entire system just locks up. By the time I open the lid in the morning, the laptop presents me with a black screen and is totally unresponsive. Yet if I leave it on a console without X running, it doesn't happen. Of course, this doesn't really help much, since the download app I use is a graphic app without a CLI backend, inconveniently. I've thought to check the logfiles, except even the 'everything.log' just shows a line with '--MARK--' on it, and then nothing else until syslog-ng starts up on the next boot up. Without anything logged to trace it from, I'm at a complete loss here. I've tried disabling pretty much all of KDE's power management in case it happened to be that, but no luck. Searching about the internet suggested two problem possibilities, namely VLC (which apparently somehow causes KDE to experience issues just by having it installed...) and cron, though there's nothing cron is running except three daily jobs - logrotate, man-db and shadow respectively, none of which would seem to me to be the cause. Anyone got any ideas to lend a hand here? -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
