Re: [LUG] Unrecoverable Crash

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lee,

sounds nasty!. The first place to look would always be the syslog /var/log/
syslog maybe /var/log/messages on some distros. You should be able to look 
towards the end of it and itentify where you rebooted from and look back 
before there before the crash to see if there is any naughtyness at all.

For totaly random crashes never underestimate the power of a "hot processor". 
My system can overheat at times due to a poor CPU fan and this can cause 
random crashes and worse when compiling it can cause garbage to enter 
binaries causing untraceable errors! Do the problems occur during/after heavy 
cpu load? you mentioned games (good chance yes then) and media play back 
(potential heavy cpu user). 

If the syslog shows nothing it may be worth monitoring CPU temperature if your 
cpu/motherboard supports it. I can't remember off hand the name but there is 
some linux kernel and userspace stuff for motherboard monitoring.

Regards

Robin




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