Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> writes: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:23:08 +0000 > Sharon Kimble <boudic...@skimble.plus.com> wrote: > >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've >> had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3 >> days, even though its on all the time! >> >> It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crashed overnight >> whilst I've been asleep! There does not seem to be any pattern to >> it, or any noticeable trigger. >> >> When it crashes, the screen freezes, and both the usb keyboard and >> mouse freeze, and can not be used. >> >> In its most recent crash, it shows this in logwatch the following day >> > > <snip> > >> What should I - >> a) - install, to get a better idea of why its crashing? >> b) - do to stop/get round the crashing please? > > Hard to say without more information. The next time it crashes, you > might want to note the time, and look at messages in /var/log/dmesg > and /var/log/kern.log for messages around that time period, and post > them here and/or post a link to a pastebin of the logs. > > Then it might be easier to figure out what is going on. > > Hope you can do that, and that it will help. Trouble with new computers > is never any fun :-( > Thanks Petter, I've made a note of this for when it next happens.
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