Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Grant
| My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Dale said this part. o_O Do you recall what you did? Recompile a package? Blow out some dust bunnies? Cross your toes? I believe it stopped freezing after it's periodic ext3 filesystem check after a reboot, but it didn't report any type of error after the check. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Grant
| My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant | | Start

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: | My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: | My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Ale
2008/3/31, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Steven Lembark
Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? There's a decent

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is panicking, so I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph
On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:31:50 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Does it freeze under no load? Just boot it and wait. don't log in, etc. I'd also try booting from a Knoppix CD to see if it still happens. It is doesn't, the problem is in software, not hardware. Running memtest86 wouldn't be a bad