Re: Random system crashes

On 04/26/2018 02:34 PM, Robert Freiberger wrote:
> I had this similar issue before and it was related to an SSD controller 
> locking up the drive (those horrible OCZ drives). The weird part is the 
> system would sometimes work but the background processes would hang, 
> other times it would simply lock up. Since the drive was locked, no logs 
> were written and upon reboot, the system appeared fine. If you are 
> running into issues that fail to mention anything on the system logs, I 
> would look into the core components and run them doing a classic A/B 
> swap. Say boot the system from USB live distro and see if it crashes in 
> the same manner, then swap out all of the memory except for one stick, etc.

Hmmmm.   The root drive is OCZ/Toshiba Trion SSDs, about 1.5 years old.
Smartctl says that the drive is OK, and there are no past error reports.

Maybe I'll move / to a plain old slow HD and see what happens.

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