[PLUG] lockup logs

[Bruce Kingsland]

Is there a way to discover what leads up to a lockup?

One of my home systems hangs every couple weeks. I dunno why. I thot
it was the xlock, but yesterday it hung anyway. It was in 'video idle'
mode, and I couldn't wake it up. This is the usual failure mode.
However, this time I ping'd the sleeping system, and it answered. But
it wouldn't let me ssh in (which I later found it is *normal?*), or
bring up the video.

I thot of disabling the apm, in hopes of keeping the video active
indefinitely, as perhaps a way to at least see the last state prior to
lockup. But apm isn't running on that system. So, I dunno what causes
the video to blank out after a few minutes.

TIA!
-bk
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Bruce Kingsland
Kingsland Konsulting
brucek at kingkon.com
503-936-1655
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