Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> writes: > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 18:56:23 Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> > >> > I couldn't find an 050 model. Did you mean H50? >> >> Nope, its a Lenovo 050 Desktop from ebuyer. >> >> >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've >> >> had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3 >> >> days, even though its on all the time! >> > >> > What OS did it come with Windows 7 or 8? Did the machine crash when >> > running Windows? If yes, you could have a hardware problem. If no, >> > then it's probably a Linux problem. >> >> 8.1, which was very soon removed to install wheezy to upgrade to >> jessie. >> >> > You seemed to have installed Jessie 32-bit based on your other posting >> > -- "installed watchedog" . . . i386. >> > >> > What version of Jessie? It's at RC1 as of 25 Jan. >> >> It was installed on 10th February, a netinstall of wheezy. Then >> upgraded to jessie on the same day. >> >> > Dual boot or did you wipe out Windows? >> > >> > GNOME3 desktop? >> >> Fluxbox, I went into gnome once whilst I installed fluxbox, and >> there I remain. >> >> > Here's what I'd do. Start over from zero. You could have a corrupted >> > install. Wipe out your current Jessie. Download and install the most >> > current 64-bit version. Do a checksum on the download itself and the CD >> > or DVD after burning. Depending on your Internet connection, a >> > netinstall CD will get you an up-to-date system when the >> > install is completed. >> >> Everything is working okay, that crashing was the only problem, so >> thanks, but I'm staying with it as it is. The setup was missing >> "watchdog" which is now installed. But it is a good idea to get a >> new 64-bit version, my install disk was burnt on 28 May 2013 so it >> does need to be replaced. >> >> >> It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crashed overnight >> >> whilst I've been asleep! There does not seem to be any pattern to >> >> it, or any noticeable trigger. >> >> >> >> When it crashes, the screen freezes, and both the usb keyboard and >> >> mouse freeze, and can not be used. >> > >> > Sounds like a kernel crash. Does the screen go black (or another >> > color) like the computer was turned off, or does the desktop image >> > remain? >> >> When it crashed *everything* just froze, the keyboard, the desktop, >> the monitor, time stood still! >> > Did you, by any chance, install a 3.19-trunk Kernel? That one crashes on my > desktop too while 3.18 works flawlessly. > > Eike
Nope, its a 3.16.0-4-686-pae, bog-standard kernel. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.6, emacs 24.4.1.0
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