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Matt Garman wrote: | Since doing my last 'emerge -vuD world' a few days ago, my system | has locked up two or three times. And it hasn't locked up while I | was using it---I step away for a while, come back, and the screen is | blank (but the monitor is *not* in power save mode), keyboard/mouse | interaction doesn't do anything; also, the computer will respond to | pings, but trying to ssh into the computer results in a timeout. | | Now, I know this is about the most vague question I can ask, but | does anyone have any suggestions on likely places to start looking? | I haven't changed any hardware, so I'm guessing that it's a software | issue. I have no idea what is causing the lockup. | | If I had to make a random guess, I would guess it's the nvidia | drivers (nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx version 1.0.6629-r1). But | that's just a totally wild guess :) | | Anyone have any other ideas? Is there a good diagnostic tool for | catching something as nebulous as this?
I guess the best diagnostic tool would be you, searching in the logs for something bad happened causing the lockup. In case the lockups are completely random it might be a hardware problem.
Regards,
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