Thanks Jonathan, Great idea! I'll give that a try. Yesterday I ran EMC2 all day and it didn't shut down. Grrrr...
Andy Jonathan / Hydra wrote: > You could also test running prime95 in stress test mode to try to see if > there's a hardware failure, it will compute mersenne primes and compare > with a table of known-good values. Flaky hardware will either lock up > the computer or report as a computational error. Do note that it really > will strain your hardware, primarily the cpu, memory controller and ram. > Usually a 24 hour run is long enough to show any hardware issues. > > http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Andrew Ayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thanks Chris and Jon, > > Because I've rebooted the PC twice since the problem, I no longer have > an Xorg log file for when the problem happened. So I'll wait until it > shows up again and then take a look. > > I didn't touch the keyboard - I was watching the CNC machine when it > happened the first time, then I let EMC2 run some g-code over and over > again (no machine attached) and while I was out on errands it happened > again. > > Running memtest86+ now. > > Andy > > Jon Elson wrote: > > Andrew Ayre wrote: > >> I have noticed that perhaps one time in five Linux will partially > >> shutdown during milling. It's a bit hard to describe but the Gnome > >> desktop is replaced with a text screen of what looks like the > tail end > >> of the bootup sequence: > >> > >> Operation [OK] > >> Another operation [OK] > >> Running startup scripts in /etc/rc.local [OK] > >> > >> There are no messages and EMC2 continues to generate pulses - which > >> cause the X and Y axis to move the spindle in a straight line. A > quick > >> press of the power button turns off the power. > >> > >> I booted and checked dmesg, user.log, syslog and messages. > Nothing was > >> recorded to indicate a problem. The syslog only had the 30 > minute marks > >> in it. > > This may be a crash of the X-windows server. You didn't, by any > > chance, hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? That is the command to kill the > > X server. If X is actually crashing, the message file is in > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and may show some useful info. > > > > Jon > > -- > Andy > PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
