Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-08 Thread Adrian Levi
On 9 July 2011 16:51, Adrian Levi wrote: > Ok, I've had some time to sit down with this thing and check it out further. > Found this on the screen after stopping boinc-client. I'm going to Before I could use the machine this afternoon I had to restart it, It responded to SysRQ RESUB Jul 9 11:0

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-08 Thread Adrian Levi
On 6 July 2011 08:27, William Hopkins wrote: > > I understand your logic but the log says setiathome was the process that > ultimately triggered the crash. Try disabling it and doing the vt1 trick again > (also look into the liveCD log-inspection suggestion, then you can pastebinit > and we can re

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/05/11 at 10:11pm, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 5 July 2011 21:08, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > > > Just a thought: have you tried disabling setiathome?  (And also, did > > you have the same setiathome version running on the Ubuntu that didn't > > freeze?) > > Seti is a recent addition to that mach

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 5 July 2011 21:08, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Just a thought: have you tried disabling setiathome?  (And also, did > you have the same setiathome version running on the Ubuntu that didn't > freeze?) Seti is a recent addition to that machine. It was locking up before I installed it. Adrian --

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Adrian Levi, 5.07.2011: > On 3 July 2011 17:43, Adrian Levi wrote: > > My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian > > stable. > > Ha, I turned off kdm and left the computer sitting in vt1. I got the > following: > (Hand typed excuse any typo's) > > gemini login: [2

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 17:43, Adrian Levi wrote: > My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. Ha, I turned off kdm and left the computer sitting in vt1. I got the following: (Hand typed excuse any typo's) gemini login: [24573.123365] general protection fault: [#1

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 03/07/2011 15:10, Adrian Levi wrote: I don't see anything on the screen, Can't wake up the screen (it goes blank) no oops, no nothing. Dosen't even respond to a num-lock, caps-lock button press. Adrian OK, so you may want to use a live cd to inspect the Debian logs...? Nicolas -- To UNSUB

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread green
Adrian Levi wrote at 2011-07-03 01:43 -0600: > My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will > hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. If you are not getting any sound anyway, have you tried removing all the snd modules? signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 21:27, lee wrote: > You need to figure out what happens to trigger the freezing.  Are there > any entries in syslog that might indicate something?  There's cron > scripts running over night ... Perhaps the easiest way to approach this > is setting the system clock 12 hours or so ah

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 18:56, Nicolas Bercher wrote: Hi Nicolas, > So, before upgrading the kernel to 2.6.38, where you using the standard > stable Debian kernel (2.6.32)?  If not (but seems yes), maybe downgrading > the kernel back to the stable one is a good thing to test. The problem was also in 2.6

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread lee
Adrian Levi writes: > My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. > > My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will > hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated > to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel compatibilit

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 03/07/2011 09:43, Adrian Levi wrote: My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel c

Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel compatibility issue but the problem remains