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Questions tagged [crash]

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Crash during startup on a recent corporate computer

After some recent updates, my computer no longer boots! Here's what I could determine: This is a very recent computer that was provided to me by corporate IT. It has a recent Intel CPU (Skylake generation). The computer runs Ubuntu 16.04. The…
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How to determine why my computer crashed?

Yesterday, I ran a bash script for about 10 hours. When I went to use the computer, it locked up. I have an Eee PC with Debian. The screen was still visible, but the mouse or keyboard had not effect. I tried CtrlAltDelete, CtrlAltBackspace,…
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How to get last crash log from ArchLInux

My system suddenly crashed, I have restart it, where could I find the last/previous crash log, since there are no /var/log/syslog* anymore..
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Determining cause of Linux kernel panic

I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04 derivative (amd64) and I've been having really strange issues recently. Out of the blue, seemingly, X will freeze completely for a while (1-3 minutes?) and then the system will reboot. This system is overclocked, but very…
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What are the files located in `/var/crash/`?

I know when a program crashes, some files creating in /var/crash/. But I don't know what these files are! Is that error logs?
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How can I recover after Kate crashes?

I use Kate for coding and note-taking. Sometimes it crashes - often when I've got a lot open. Unsaved 'real' documents (eg, ones backed by files, that have been saved at some point) usually have a backup/autosave type recovery file, that…
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Chrome crashing with open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)

When I open Chrome, with a Python module named subprocess, it crashes and gives me these errors: [1103/163807.480539:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory…
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Can the filesystem become inconsistent if interrupted when moving a file?

I have two folders on the same partition (EXT2) If I mv folder1/file folder2 and some interruption occur (e.g. power failure) could the file system ever end up being inconsistent? Isn't the mv operation atomic? Update: So far on IRC I got the…
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Is it safe to remove files from /var/crash

I'm receiving a disk usage warning from the server " The filesystem “/” mounted at “/” reached “critical” status because you currently use 92.77% of its available blocks." After deep investigation I found that /var/crash is using 56G. Is it safe to…
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Migrate Firefox profile to a new one

I reinstalled Firefox, because my profile was crashing. I backed up my ~/.mozilla folder to some other place, uninstalled firefox and installed it again. New firefox wasn't crashing. So I copied one of my backup up old profile to new firefox, and…
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Why does the console need sometimes a reset after CTRL+C

Some command line interface tools return a broken console when canceled by CTRL+C. Sometimes the text is invisible, or there are graphic problems until I run the command reset. (I use bash, but expect it is independent of the shell.) Does this…
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What's does Bad RIP value mean?

In a common call trace, we can check RIP to know which code crashed. but in some call traces, it shows Bad RIP value: [ 86.414392] RIP: 0010: (null) [ 86.415351] Code: Bad RIP value. ex: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202827 What does…
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Trouble Logging Kernel Panic for Debugging

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS/EC2 and having a large number of hosts going belly up. I'm trying to enable kernel dumping, but when I simulate a kernel panic, there's no .crash file written anywhere on the file system. I followed the instructions…
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rcu_sched detected stall on CPU

Seen multiple rcu_sched stall messages in a customer device and it gets crashed/hung. Under this condition, the device is not accessible via SSH or 3G. Kernel version is 3.2.54. "rcu_sched detected stall on CPU 0" is repeated many times, what does…
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How long should I wait between keystrokes when doing SysRq + REISUB?

I read this from here: The most useful combination is the Alt+SysRq/Prnt Scrn + R-E-I-S-U-B. The above basically means that while you press and hold Alt+SysRq/Prnt Scrn and press R, E, I, S, U, B giving sufficient time between each of these keys to…
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