Re: Debugging a system freeze?

[Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/18/2012 03:02 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Svanefalk
> <christopher.svanefalk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Recently I have been having problems with my machine completely freezing up
>> seemingly randomly. The display freezes in its current frame, and all I/O is
>> completely unresponsive. It is not possible to SSH into it at this stage
>> (ssh fails with a Host Unreachable error). The only remedy is a manual
>> reset.
>>
>> I was wondering how I could go about trying to figure out what is going on?
>> What log files can I look at to figure out what happened just before the
>> reset etc? Would be grateful for any help.
>>
>> My specs are the following:
>>
>> Fedora 17 standard desktop version, completely updated as of June 17, 2012.
>>
>> i7-3930K clocked at 4.2Ghz with 1.240 vcore (stable)
>> Gigabyte X79-UD7
>> Nvidia GTX285 (main suspect, since it is provably broken. However, I have
>> not had these problems earlier)
>> SATA HDD from Seagate.
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>>
>> Christopher Svanefalk
> Power supply issues?
> Beyond that, I'd configure lm_sensors ($ sensors-detect) and
> periodically log the output of $ sensors into a log file.
>
> - Gilboa

I don't see that anyone has asked what I thought would be the very first question....

The box has an nVidia card....but I've not seen if the nVidia drivers or nouveau is
being used.

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