[plug] hot freeze - not a contradiction in terms

[W.Kenworthy]

Step 1: open case
Step 2: remove dustbunnies fron cpu cooler, fans, power supply and vents
using a vacuum cleaner and a soft (natural hair, not nylon) paint brush.
Step3: make note in diary to do this at the start of *EVERY* summer,
*BEFORE* things heat up ...

BillK


On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:34 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
> With this hot spell I have seen my workstation emulating a windoze PC in
> the sense that twice today without warning it has lost all keyboard
> input and apparent disc I/O so that I could not even open a VT or do
> anything except a full reboot.  
> 
> I suspect the heat is causing disc problems and perhaps my box is not
> ventilated well enough, but I can't find anything in /var/log/messages
> at the time the latest lock-up happened.  (Aside: you may recall that I
> reported problems with these discs before in that the filesystem has
> become read-only without warning)
> 
> Just what might I be seeing here, do you think?  Where might I look to
> get a better understanding?
> 
> System: Dell Precision 450 with dual Xeon 2.66 and two scsi drives setup
> with LVM, running opensuse 10.1.
> 
> Gavin.
> 
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