Constant crashes

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Sun Sep 14 19:52:24 UTC 2003


** Reply to message from Olafur Arason <olafura at hi.is> on Sun, 14 Sep 2003
18:29:05 +0000

> My laptop doesn't reboot it just dies. I cant ctrl-alt-del or
> ctrl-Sys_Req or any thing. There are no blinking lights on the keyboard.
> I have to hold down the button to reboot the computer. Everything about
> this got me leaning toward a hardware failure, but this only happened
> after I installed severn. Could this be something releated to acpi.
> Because I have to use acpi=off to boot the machine.

You may want to leave it in runlevel 3 and do a:

tail -f /var/log/messages

to see if you have any clues from the kernel before it crashes.

jb





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