Debugging a system freeze?

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 06/18/2012 03:02 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Svanefalk
> > <christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com> 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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Ed, Im using Nouveau, never had them cause issues for me in the past though.

-- 
Best,

Christopher Svanefalk
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