Debugging a system freeze?

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 17.06.2012 08:40, Christopher Svanefalk 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.
>
>
>

I strongly recommend that you check your RAM with memtest or something
similar both normal and overclocked. Symptoms might be similar to that
described by you. You'll then eliminate one piece of hardware.


Mateusz Marzantowicz

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