Arch Linux crash

suija · 2015-10-01 20:43:20

I am posting this in the newbie corner, since i have no idea what to do or what kind of information or log files i should provide.

My system crashed for the 3-rd time this week with a blank screen and 1 pixel lines on it, repeating last sound. This time i was watching youtube.
It's a fairly new arch install (maybe 2 weeks) with no desktop environment. 630 packages instaled. Dual boot with windows (wich works fine for a long time).
Pentium G2020, Radeon HD 5770, 8G ram, opensource radeon driver. It did this before and after several of the big updates from the last days (linux, systemd).

here is journalctl --since=today
http://pastebin.com/7TFaS1pU

here is dmesg
http://pastebin.com/rGatjfQC

I don't understand any of this.

[EDIT] just now i am looking at pacman update linux-4.2.2-1, should i go for it or wait for this thread to progress?

Last edited by suija (2015-10-01 21:04:37)

nstgc · 2015-10-01 21:58:34

Upgrading Linux may make it harder to diagnose what's going on, but that's more an opinion than anything else.

[edit] Upgrading in general may make the task harder, but core stuff is, well, core to the system.

Last edited by nstgc (2015-10-01 21:59:09)

c3kay · 2015-10-01 22:27:19

Did the system crash today? Because if it didn't then you won't find anything in the journal. You'd need to post the journal from the time it crashes. You can identify a specific boot using journalctl -xb -1 where the -1 switch is the number of boots previous to the current one. So it's much more helpful if you can post a journal from the crash event.

suija · 2015-10-01 23:17:53

It crashed just before i posted, so i presume it would be around halfway through the file where it says --reboot-- right? but it has a gap between 18:07:32 and 22:57:14, i dont know how it works.

What other log files there are to see?

Last edited by suija (2015-10-01 23:22:14)

c3kay · 2015-10-02 01:41:53

If you've only rebooted once since the crash then use journalctl -xb -1, which will get you the previous boot's journal.

niceman · 2015-10-02 14:31:40

try to use windows for some long time, say one or two days, if windows crashes too then mostly it is a hardware error.

can you post journal-ctl -xb 1(or any number depending on the time it crashed) ?

suija · 2015-10-02 15:47:55

I thought i made it clear that the crash event was in the output of --since=today, but you are asking specifically for this, then here:

journalctl -xb -2
http://pastebin.com/EZPF67K4

niceman · 2015-10-02 16:31:01

did you leave your computer for two hours and then removed geeqie and left it for four hours ? if you did then unfortunately your journal log seems good.

If you didn't then there is something but it would be very strange problem, you can try linux-lts.

suija · 2015-10-02 17:38:58

I might have had work, don't remember, but not so much as 4 hours, so it's strange to me too that there is no log from that time.

I'll try the suggestion to use windows for a few days and see if it's hardware issue, then think about what's next.

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