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Re: [LUG] tracking a powerdown

 

On 25/04/2020 10:07, Eion MacDonald wrote:
On 25/04/2020 08:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:

On 24/04/2020 10:10, Tom via list wrote:
Last night my laptop stopped dead - blank screen no response to
anything. I powered it off and back on again and set a full backup
running. This morning I started checking the logs but no indication of
what happened. Nothing!

Any clues as to how and try and track this down.

Tom te tom te tom


I'm guessing that your backup logs overwrote your "real" logs and wiped
the evidence of what happened.
I read Toms message as

   Taook a backup when he next booted the Laptop

and not

   Restoring from a backup

PC stops dead == No logs because a stopped CPU can't write logs.
Hardware or software problem? Who knows. It happens from time to time on
my desktop but it's almost always when I'm running Shotwell to import
videos from my camera, (so now I run that on a laptop and copy the files
over) - is there some issue with the FUSE filesystem and SATA/SSD writes
or... ? Power supply, overheating, or ... Who knows.

Gordon

Gordon's reply triggered a memory.
I had this on two laptops and and one desktop machine some years ago.
All machines failed in a couple of days.
It was due to overheating. Cleaning out all machines, (de-fluff the fans
and filters cured it.

I've been running Folding@Home during the day (PV so the electricity is free) and that has 6 cores running and the fan running flat out but no signs of overheating then. When it crashed it was in the evening and there was nothing running at the time.It hasn't happened since...

Tom te tom te tom


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