Ubuntu 10.04 USB Mouse Problems reported by a number of, users.

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 3 23:56:06 UTC 2010


On 07/03/2010 12:17 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/02/2010 11:05 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> > NoOp wrote:
>> >> What is dmesg showing when all of this happens? Their _must_ be
>> >> something in the /var/logs/ that is of use.
>> > 
>> > Well, if the system is frozen, there is no way to look at dmesg.
>> > And if the system is completely locked, there is no way for it to
>> > write anything to the system logs. To me it looks like it is
>> > completely locked because it isn't reachable over the wireless
>> > network.
>> 
>> But there may be something in the logs just prior to the freeze; I
>> still think it worth a look.
> 
> Agreed, it is sure worth to have a look. I'm just not so sure if there 
> really "_must_ be something in the /var/logs/ that is of use". You might 
> see something if it is e.g. a problem of a dying harddisk where read 
> failures and disk controller resets are logged. OTOH, if it is e.g. a 
> temperature problem which locks the CPU, it is unlikely to see something 
> in the logs.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 

And that would be different (temp problem) than losing wireless; that
response still confuses me as I do not see how wireless would lock the
whole system.






More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list