[plug] Random crashes

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:03 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Cooling? - try lm-sensors

Yes, heat accumulation due to dust on CPU heat sink can be a problem
this time of year. My system became unstable the other day, it's been
creeping up on me for a while.

Cleaned the CPU heat sink and it's running OK now.
There was quit a bit of dust in the fins.

Once upon a time capacitors would become broken but I haven't seen the
little tell tail bulge on any of these for a while now.

> 
> 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
> >