On 9/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay R. Ashworth</b> <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</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;">
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:09:01PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:<br>> Ben Davis wrote:<br><br>On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:<br><br>What they both said. memtest86 is always the first order of business;
<br>if you installed linux from a commercial distro or a liveCD, it's<br>probably in the boot menu; if not you can download an ISO and burn it.<br><br>Let it run overnight, at least.<br><br>Remember that the internal temp of your box is usually roughly 20F
<br>hotter than ambient; 30+F hotter if your box's cooling sucks. How hot<br>is the room?<br><br>You might want to find the DPMS switch in your X config and turn screen<br>blanking off with it; alernative, SSH into the box and say
<br><br># tail -f /var/log/messages<br><br>(from some other PC) and see what's left when it crashes.<br></blockquote></div><br>While you're at it, take a look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and see if<br>it shows anything interesting at the times of previous crashes. You could
<br>open a second ssh window and tail it until a crash to see what it shows, as<br>well. I might even "tee" the logs to files on the remote machine for post-<br>mortem analysis.<br><br>Craig.<br>