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#1 2010-04-04 22:13:01

meatcar
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Registered: 2010-03-11
Posts: 18

[SOLVED] Macbook pro 1,1 hardware error debug

Arch was running fine for almost a month now, and suddenly it starts crashing like crazy. Whats interesting is that ubuntu's live cd runs fine for a long time. This lappy has a history of rejecting bad OS like windows and OSX, which both gave cpu panics, but it has been happily running linux for almost 2 years now.

I've managed to capture the error that I get at boot,
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I tried running mcelog --ascii as the error suggests during a tiny window when my system was operational, only to encounter a lack of such software on my system.

I am able to sometimes get to the system to try some commands, before it crashes again.

dmesg, errors.log, kernel.log didnt have much suspicious information in them.

Any help will be very appreciated.

happy easter smile

EDIT: Somehow, very mysteriously, it turned out that i was able to operate in frame-buffer mode without any crashing. Then, i figured out that it was when my system was trying to do something with yaourt, it crashed. I tried to upgrade, and then encountered a .xz package. After modifying pkgbuild.conf for .xz support, i updated, rebooted, and have had no problems since. Very weird, but good that it all fixed itself.

Last edited by meatcar (2010-04-05 05:17:30)

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