My system seems to crash from time to time. I still don’t know what causes it.

If I leave it untouched for a few hours, sometimes, it crashes.

To resume, I have to force a reboot by unplugging the power cable (not even pressing the power button for N seconds seems to work).

Then, it seems to work just fine (after displaying some error messages about lost or orphaned inodes at boot). Until, one day, it happens again. When? I never know. It seems to follow some strange and unpredictable pattern.

Where should I start investigating?

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Then it could still be the power supply or motherboard. It takes a lot to override the hardware power switch and the power supply itself is usually one of the biggest culprits to random lockups. Beyond that I can’t offer much, I don’t know of any way to test the components unless you could afford thousands of dollars for specialized equipment. I’ve always had multiple machines available to swap parts so I don’t have a different strategy for troubleshooting.

      • Ninguém@lemmy.ptOP
        2·
        5 months ago

        Thanks.

        I thought there could be some place in logs the system could write error messages to. Even hardware derived.

        I’ve been going through /var/log/* and found thousand of scary messages, but can’t really make sense of any of those.