On Tuesday 10 January 2006 16:42, Martin Soltau wrote: <snip>
Does anyone have any idea where I can find this in a /var/log - file? It was a bunch of information and I was not able to write it all down...
Hi Martin, Everybody has their own methods, but what I usually do after successfully booting the system again is (as root, of course): cd /var/log cp boot.omsg boot.omsg.chk ... note: 'o' is for 'old' for previous boot cp messages messages.chk ... note: new content is always appended cp warn warn.chk ... note: ditto chown *.chk {myself}:users ... note: I can now move the snapshot to my user home directory or another system to study and edit at my convenience. On another note, I was thinking that, since the 'decision' to crash isn't consistent but the timing of each crash *is* (approaching/at the KDE greeter) it might be worth testing a two stage boot: change the default to run level 3 and, after it boots, log in as root and run init 5. - If the frequency and timing of the crashes remains the same, i.e. approaching/at the KDE greeter, this points towards a problem in the X configuration or in the graphics subsystem, itself (config, hardware.) - If it stops falling over, then the problem can be isolated to the boot process, itself. It could be the module loading sequence... or a module selection/blacklisting 'tweak' is needed... or a timing conflict, as in some hardware sometimes being too slow to initialize... or marginal hardware that is 'landing' in one of two states when it is initialized *during boot* (Um, how big is the power supply and have you done any tests to rule it out?) That's all for now. I'll write more if something comes to mind. Good luck and have fun! - Carl