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Re: [LUG] tracking a powerdown

 

On 25/04/2020 08:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:
> 
>> On 24/04/2020 10:10, Tom via list wrote:
>>> Last night my laptop stopped dead - blank screen no response to
>>> anything. I powered it off and back on again and set a full backup
>>> running. This morning I started checking the logs but no indication of
>>> what happened. Nothing!
>>>
>>> Any clues as to how and try and track this down.
>>>
>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>
>>>
>> I'm guessing that your backup logs overwrote your "real" logs and wiped
>> the evidence of what happened.
> 
> I read Toms message as
> 
>   Taook a backup when he next booted the Laptop
> 
> and not
> 
>   Restoring from a backup
> 
> PC stops dead == No logs because a stopped CPU can't write logs.
> Hardware or software problem? Who knows. It happens from time to time on
> my desktop but it's almost always when I'm running Shotwell to import
> videos from my camera, (so now I run that on a laptop and copy the files
> over) - is there some issue with the FUSE filesystem and SATA/SSD writes
> or... ? Power supply, overheating, or ... Who knows.
> 
> Gordon


Gordon's reply triggered a memory.
I had this on two laptops and and one desktop machine some years ago.
All machines failed in a couple of days.
It was due to overheating. Cleaning out all machines, (de-fluff the fans
and filters cured it.

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regards
Eion MacDonald

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