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karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

system crashing, no idea why

ok sometime in the night the system crashed, leaving only a blank screen and blinking capslock and scrolllock lights on the keyboard.  couldnt reboot, etc.  same thing just happened while using a text editor and azureus, crashes, video stayed on, but blinking keyboard lights.  any ideas what could be going on

this is on a 1-day old fresh install of arch64

thanks
karsten

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: system crashing, no idea why

Was the panic logged? (Blinking keyboard lights indicates a kernel panic.)

If not, see if you can cause it while not in X, and it should come out on your console.

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: system crashing, no idea why

which logfile should i check, i read through a few but i dont know them enough to know what to look for.  thanks

karsten

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: system crashing, no idea why

Check the output of 'dmesg', and 'grep -i panic' though the various files in /var/log/ . One of these ought to have it.