my FC4 freezes in an unpredictable way

[Matt Morgan]

On 6/20/05, BB Cao <pearlsmm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 6/20/05, BB Cao <pearlsmm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I just updated from FC3 to FC4 last week. I like
> > FC
> > > very much! But one thing is pretty annoying after
> > the
> > > updation, my FC4 just freezes now and then. My
> > > observation is that, if I don't use keyboard or
> > mouse
> > > longer than 1-2 hours, it freezes probably 60% of
> > all
> > > the times. The screensaver was already disabled.
> > Any
> > > suggestion of how to get rid of it? Thank you very
> > > much!
> >
> > I can't help you much here, but have you checked for
> > messages in the
> > files in /var/log? That's a good place to start
> > digging.
> 
> Thanks. So, which files should I look at?

Well, any of them really. I'd just hope to find errors or other
messages with timestamps just before each freeze, or failing that, any
telltale messages. /var/log/messages is the location for general
system messages and is kind of your best bet.

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