On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Munson</b> <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net">william_munson@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Your problem does sound thermal so stop on the way home and pick up a<br>can of compressed air or use a compressor if you have one. Take off the<br>cover(s) and blow out the inside of the computer and power supply. Be<br>
sure to clean out the fins on the various heatsinks on the board. Blow<br>air into every fan opening on the power supply. Everything should be<br>back to normal after that. Because we have pet birds here our computers<br>
need cleaning every 6 months or things start to plug up.<br><br></blockquote></div>William,<br><br>I would agree, but this system is < 2 months old. I'm thinking more along the<br>lines of a defective or infant mortality part failure. Scans through /var/log/*
<br>haven't revealed anything clearly an issue, but I did find this interesting:<br><br>In /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (yesterday's log) and in /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1 these <br>lines appear at the end:<br><br>AUDIT: Sun Sep 16 22:12:40 2007: 4351 Xorg: client 2 rejected from local host
<br>AUDIT: Sun Sep 16 22:12:40 2007: 4351 Xorg: client 3 rejected from local host<br>AUDIT: Sun Sep 16 22:12:41 2007: 4351 Xorg: client 3 rejected from local host<br>AUDIT: Sun Sep 16 22:12:41 2007: 4351 Xorg: client 3 rejected from local host
<br><br>Backtrace:<br>0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80bc151]<br>1: [0x110420]<br>2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so(_nv001038X+0x44) [0x2d6110]<br><br>Fatal server error:<br>Caught signal 11. Server aborting
<br><br>(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to free video decoder object<br>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to tear down DAC<br><br><br>These lines don't appear in every Xorg.0.log.* nor in every gdm/:0.log.*, so I<br>wonder...<br><br>No smoking guns with lm_sensors output, either. Core0 Temp: +75F,
<br>Core1 Temp: +75F, temp1: +75F, temp2: +88F, temp3: +77F, <br>fan1: 2884 RPM.<br><br>What else might I delve into?<br><br>Craig.<br>