[plug] Random crashes

[William Kenworthy]

Cooling? - try lm-sensors

BillK

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 17:48 +0800, Kai wrote:
> Hi guys and girls,
> 
> I was home for holidays in July, built a machine a few days before I 
> left, got it working with Ubuntu and it looked good but maybe the power 
> supply is a bit variable with the wattage it supplies, not sure what the 
> problem is but it'll run fine for a sporadic amount of time, sometimes 
> minutes other times it'll go for a week or so...then crash.
> 
> I've checked /var/log/messages for hardware or daemons that have 
> problems on start-up, can't see anything that looks to be causing the 
> problem, what other log files would be a good place to look for finding 
> hardware that's not responding so I can try to figure out where the 
> problem is without being onsite?
> 
> This prolly sounds like a n00b question, I've been too busy with 
> aviation studies in the last 1.5 years, haven't had much time to 
> actually use many of my IT skills.
> 
> Cheers
> Kai
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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