One of my old laptops had a similar issue. It had a bottom section that
contained the floppy and CD drive. It ended up to be a bad memory module.
On 02/15/2011 10:33 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
> I have seen such things be thermal related.
>
> Even though it is a laptop, open it up or have a tech do it
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jack Coats wrote:
> > Even though it is a laptop, open it up...and clean it out.
>
> I do that about once a year and did so in January when I upgraded the RAM.
>
> The crash frequency has perhaps increased in frequency some since the
> RAM upgr
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:22:43AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> Hmmm...maybe a "blue screen of death" isn't such a bad design.
I don't think anyone ever lamented the design... just how often it
presented itself. :(
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On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> If this is a practical option, I'll dig deeper and see if I can turn up
>> a guide for using it with an Ubuntu kernel.
>
> Installing kexec-tools did generate this warning:
>
> update-rc.d: warning: kdump start runlevel argument
Tom Metro wrote:
> If this is a practical option, I'll dig deeper and see if I can turn up
> a guide for using it with an Ubuntu kernel.
Installing kexec-tools did generate this warning:
update-rc.d: warning: kdump start runlevel arguments (2) do not match
LSB Default-Start values (0 1 2 3 4 5)
u
Jack Coats wrote:
> Even though it is a laptop, open it up...and clean it out.
I do that about once a year and did so in January when I upgraded the RAM.
The crash frequency has perhaps increased in frequency some since the
RAM upgrade, but the problem was definitely there prior to the RAM
upgrad
Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> My recollection is that the only way to
>> capture the output of a kernel panic is to capture the output of the
>> serial console. Is that still true?
>
> No. There have been other ways for quite some time.
Ah, good.
I have seen such things be thermal related.
Even though it is a laptop, open it up or have a tech do it and clean
it out. Dust, lint, etc build up and can cause thermal overload. It
is very dusty were we live, and I have this as an issue in desktops
here.
My son had a laptop at college and foun
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> My laptop is crashing pretty regularly with a kernel panic after 24 to
> 48 hours of uptime. Rolling back to the last two kernel versions hasn't
> helped.
>
> My attempts to leave the computer idle showing a virtual console al
My laptop is crashing pretty regularly with a kernel panic after 24 to
48 hours of uptime. Rolling back to the last two kernel versions hasn't
helped.
My attempts to leave the computer idle showing a virtual console also
hasn't been too successful at revealing the cause (see pri
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