ok, it happened in X, and happened several times. I suspect it happens only when the screen is supposed to go to standby, but it's only suspicion, not a fact. I've changed the kernel settings lately, without installing the new kernel yet, and I'm about to do that now, with magic SysReq, just in case. I'm not sure if the system is really ideal, or just that application are unresponsive. While writing this mail I've managed to recreate the symptoms by pressing ctrl+alt+F1. I have an intel video card, and remember having some problems with it.
What log should I check? I never tried to track down this kind of error in the past. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Willie Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: >> Hello, >> My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after >> several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about >> it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze? > > What was it running at the time? (Was it *truly* idle or was it just > not running userspace applications?) > > Was this in X or on the command line? It it was in X, have you tried > the Magic SysReq Keys (provided that you have that compiled into the > kernel; there have been many threads on this mailing list with more > details, you can search for it)? > > If you reboot, is there anything suspicious in /var/log? > > Is this recurring, or has it only happened this one time? > > Have you performed any software/firmware/hardware updates recently? > > These are just some of the questions that immediately pop into my > head. If you provide more information, I'm sure the list can help you > sort this out. > > Cheers, > > W > -- > Willie W. Wong [email protected] > 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton > Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire > et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton > >
