F7 crash investigation

[alan]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Marcel Janssen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed yet another box with F7 but this new box has got a major issue, F7
> keeps crashing on it while windows works well on it.
>
> Crashes occur about every 10-20 minutes and need a hard reset. They seem to
> occur at random, sometimes while booting sometimes just by looking at the
> screen...
>
> I have slowed down memory and cpu freqs (was not overclocked) to see if that
> changes things, but it didn't.
>
> Where do I start investigating this issue ?

Look in /var/log/messages for kernel panics and other warning messages.

If there is a hang, it may be a kernel panic and it may be dropping 
debugging information into the system log.

-- 
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
                                   - Alan Cox