[Novalug] Laptop Lockup

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 18:04:06 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:42 -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 05:33:44 pm Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:24 -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on my Lenovo 3000. If I'm working continuously,
> > > there's no problem. If I don't do anything for a while, the screen
> > > blanks. Hitting a key or moving the mouse brings the display back. So
> > > far, so good.
> > >
> > > If I don't do anything for several hours, I discover that the screen is
> > > blank, the cps-lock indicator is flashing and it won't respond.
> > >
> > > Is there some magic combination of keys I have to hit or am I having a
> > > problem?
> >
> > Sounds like you're kernel's panicking if the caps lock light is
> > flashing.
> 
> OK. How do I stop it?

Find out what's making it panic.  Often that'll mean some piece of
hardware's dying or a driver's bad.  A kernel panic is the same thing as
the Blue Screen of Death...minus the pretty blue background.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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