[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted
Remy Blank wrote: Some version info: xorg-server-1.8.1.901 xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 udev-149 gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 Has anyone seen anything similar? Any idea how I could either work around the issue or debug it? I have tried strace but couldn't extract any meaningful information. For the record, I have update to gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r1, and the issue seems to be fixed. I still don't understand why this has suddenly started happening, as I had been running 2.6.31-r6 for months. Now on to my next issue: my laptop powers off by itself after a few hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue, but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for ~30 seconds, before the laptop powered off. This seems to be a strong hint at a kernel panic. Unfortunately, as I was in X, I didn't get to see the panic, and it wasn't logged either. Does anyone know how to get the kernel panic message in such a case? I have enabled remote logging with syslog-ng, but I suspect that this won't be enough. I have found kdump, but setting it up seems to be quite tricky. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted
Remy Blank wrote: my laptop powers off by itself after a few hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue, but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for ~30 seconds, before the laptop powered off. This seems to be a strong hint at a kernel panic. Unfortunately, as I was in X, I didn't get to see the panic, and it wasn't logged either. Does anyone know how to get the kernel panic message in such a case? I have enabled remote logging with syslog-ng, but I suspect that this won't be enough. I have found kdump, but setting it up seems to be quite tricky. -- Remy Turn off all power management software. My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up crashing it.
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted
James L wrote: Turn off all power management software. My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up crashing it. Thanks for the suggestion. The only power management software that I have installed is the cpufreq ondemand governor, which shouldn't use the power saving modes AFAIK. I have logged the CPU temperature, remaining battery capacity, charger state and loadavg every 10 seconds, and the CPU is mostly idle (0.00 loadavg, ~40 °C), the battery full, and the charger connected. Then suddenly, after ~15 hours, blinking keyboard lights and finally power off. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
