I have been running Kubuntu on it for the longest time. I’m just not very happy with the way KDE 4 feels in it. I had used Suse back in the Ver 9.0 day and always liked it so I figured give it a try.
Well I installed it, and it does feel better. They have improved YAST, and over all I find all the things that made me leave SUSE have been corrected.
So as I have used it it will just crash on me, and I mean crash. I’m just doing any random task and everything will be ok, and then bam… computer turns off and then restarts. It does it with the power plugged in, it does it on a fresh install, it does it on a machine with all the latest updates. It just seems to be completely random. The Comptuer doesn’t slow down or lock-up. Everything is fine… then it turns off.
I’m not that much of a expert on this stuff, so I don’t even know what kinda of log file you might need to figure this out or even if the computer has time to write a log.
On the logs: we may hope so. Take a look at .xsession-errors, it’s a hidden file located in your homedir.
And, you might want to take a look in /var/log/messages, scroll to the time around which the crash took place.
On 02/09/2012 09:06 PM, the1drall wrote:
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> Well I installed it
what did you install?
> just doing any random task and everything will be ok, and then bam…
> computer turns off and then restarts. It does it with the power plugged
> in, it does it on a fresh install, it does it on a machine with all the
> latest updates. It just seems to be completely random. The Comptuer
> doesn’t slow down or lock-up. Everything is fine… then it turns off.
sure sounds like a hardware problem to me…
how old is this machine? ever been dropped more that (say) an inch?
what hardware problem? i don’t know, maybe:
-cracked motherboard
-intermittent grounding problem
-battery loosing contact
-faulty internal cable
-dried up thermal paste
-clogged air passages
-bad capacitors
-and others
well, i guess it could also be a BIOS needs updating because the old one
might not like the 3.x kernel (the last Kbuntu you used, was it a 2.x
kernel?)
and, of course it sure might be software, but that totally random thing
points me to hardware–anyway, take a look at those two logs and see if
there is evidence there…
Ah shoot. sorry I was on lunch break and typed that up quick.
I install SUSE 12.1. It has never been dropped. It is about a year old. Windows and Kunbutu have never given me any problem… so I agree it is a hardware problem (I think) but not a cracked motherboard etc. I take pretty good care of my hardware… I pay too much for it to just throw it around.
Pretty sure the Kubuntu is using a 3.X kernel. I had been using 11.10.
Just a note, this is a laptop with the switchable graphics cards. It has a Intel integrate card and a ATI Radeon. It has never given me a problem other then sucking down battery life.
Ok so the computer crashed at 23:04. I check my /var/log/messages. The last entry before the crash was at 22:50:44 (stating I FAILED to authenticate, when I was configuring my IP address) , and the next entry was at 23:05:10 as the computer rebooted (talking to the BIOS).
The last few lines of my .xsession-errors are:
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id: 0x267e344
Object::connect: No such signal RemoteWirelessNetwork::activationStateChanged(Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState, Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (0, 1) already taken
Object::connect: No such signal RemoteWirelessNetwork::activationStateChanged(Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState, Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (0, 1) already taken
Object::connect: No such signal RemoteWirelessNetwork::activationStateChanged(Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState, Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (0, 1) already taken
Object::connect: No such signal RemoteWirelessNetwork::activationStateChanged(Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState, Knm::InterfaceConnection::ActivationState)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (0, 1) already taken
which is said to fix “random crashes”…that notice was posted within
minutes of my initial post in this thread…it is THAT new…
i kinda expect a new kernel to flow through to the 12.1 users pretty
soon…if you can’t wait, you will need to find another person here to
help up move up…(i usually wait for patches to plop down in
update–makes for a smoother ride)
On 02/11/2012 10:36 PM, the1drall wrote:
> I guess I’ll just wait and report back when 3.2 comes out.
Of course, there is a finite probability that you are the only person with this
problem that is trying to run Linux. If that is the case, you will wait a long
time until the problem is fixed.