Am Freitag, den 20.06.2008, 09:37 -0600 schrieb Robin Laing: > Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 19.06.2008, 09:52 -0600 schrieb Robin Laing: > >> Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: > >>> Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 13:25 -0400 schrieb Jorge Fábregas: > >>>> Hello Everyone, > >>>> > >>>> I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a > >>>> couple of times a day. When it does I see this on /var/log/messages: > > >> -- > >> Robin Laing > > > > > > Question to the devs - could you think of any way that the kernel output > > could be a bit more informing, or don´t you get enough information from > > the hardware for such an issue. I also checked smart for unusual power > > cycle counts but to no avail. > > > > Henry > > > > Henry, it would be nice but if the system, including the BIOS doesn't > know that there is a problem with the power supply, then how is the > hardware supposed to report it. Maybe there can be a sensor added to > the harddrive to detect this type of error. A sensor on the hardrive would be a good start I guess. But even better would be a sensor on the power supply. I know that this is not something which can be resolved on the fedora list, since it involves hardware support which, as Alan already stated, is obviously not there. > I have looked at how lmsensors works and you can make some changes to > the configuration files to increase the accuracy of the reports. I have > not played with it much though. It is just as easy to pull the cover > and measure the voltages with a volt meter. I will try lmsensors and see what it can do here. If this works out, than my initial questions stands: Could such an info be included in the kernel output. Maybe not (by design) but a question can´t hurt. We do development within SAP here at our company, and for special cases, when something fails, we don´t only throw a error message to the user. We try to retrieve as much information from the underlying OS/DB as much as possible to help for later debugging or at least being more informative in the message we display to the user. > I have two of the same brand of power supply's (only ones available in > our area) with exactly the same fault. A known fault that can be fixed > with the addition of three variable resistors. Don´t get me wrong here, but this is not something I would like to see in one of my systems here. I could imagine the first response from one of our managers if anything fails (even if it is only a web page which is not displayed properly) that this must be due to the newly installed resistors ;-) Henry -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
