Laptop lockup

[Neil Cherry]

NoOp wrote:
> On 02/19/2008 05:16 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>>> Why are you still running a Feisty kernel following a Gutsy
>>> upgrade?
>> Hmm, must have grabbed the earier section of the file.
>>
>> Here's the kernel version: $ uname -a Linux toshiba 2.6.22-14-generic
>> #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>>
> 
> Perhaps its one of the many Power Management bugs. Feb 21 is HUG day for
> PM problems; have a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080221
> to see if perhaps you problem is related.

Thanks I'll check that out.

> Couple of questions:
> 
> - are you suspending the laptop when this happens?

No.

> - are you closing the lid when you leave it running overnight?

No, lid stays open.

> - have you looked at your log files (/var/log/ messages, system, dmesg,
> etc) to see if you can detect a reason? Also try /var/log/gdm to see if
> if might be a gdm problem.

I've looked in messages but not the others.

Dmesg won't show anything useful as it gets wiped at startup.

So far I've not seen anything out of the ordinary. There are a
few errors about missing fonts, and can't open /dev/watcom. I'll
clean those up a little later.

Thanks

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