Grant wrote:
>> |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes
>> |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there
>> |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How
>> |> do you troubleshoot something like this?
>> |>
>> |> - Grant
>> |
>> | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp.
>> +1 to that. I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing. I
>> installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C
>> (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up
>> to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40
>> is too hot...
>>
>> *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it,
>> subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F.
>>  
>
> The laptop has stopped freezing now. Not sure what was going on.
> Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to.
>
> - Grant
>  

Do you recall what you did? Recompile a package? Blow out some dust
bunnies? Cross your toes?

Just curious.

Dale

:-) :-)
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