1. I'm running slackware 10.2, and fluxbox
Every day I wake up to my computer, and the mouse and keyboard do not respond. The time says 4:42am
2. It also crashes under windowsxp
Windows brings up a blue screen about some hardware problem
My hardware is
80gb IDE HD (ntfs for windows xp)
160gb SATA HD
AMD 64 3400
1GB Corsair ram
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 video card
Soundblaster Audio card
Kingwin MutantX case (stock fans and PSU)
Any ideas on where to start?
Tail your dmesg log on Slackware.
tail -f /var/log/dmesg
And leave it on the screen. That should display errors as they happen. That might or might not give you more information.
<edit> another idea: leave it off at night ;)
Check for cron jobs. If it's that reliable about hanging at 4:42 am, I'd guess that you have some cron job running around then which causes a kernel panic. Since Windows also fails, the cron job might just be tickling some hardware problem.
my crontab had a job running at 4:40am every day... so I disabled that job, we shall see if this fixes it.
What job, out of curiousity?
4:40am is the default time for daily cron jobs.
The following are on Slackware 10 by default:
logrotate slocate
logrotate - rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
slocate - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate
I'm guessing that if it's one of those, it might be poking a harddrive problem.
Best way to check it. Set the clock to 4:39 then watch.
If it just freezes up, then there isn't really anything to watch.
That's why I suggested tailing the dmesg log, since it displays errors as they happen.
Or set a chron job to restart at 4:39:59
Quote from: rabbit on November 29, 2005, 05:07 PM
Or set a chron job to restart at 4:39:59
I think turning it off overnight is good, but that would probably work better. The problem is that daily chron jobs always go at 4:40. I guess you could just put it first. :)