[Wolves] linux mint crashing randomly on compaq cq58

[Kris Douglas]

On 29 Jan 2016 17:36, "Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint" <
mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i have been to trying to catch my linux mint install with the Magic
> SysRq key after it crashing to try to find out what going wrong but
> does not seem to be working?
>
> I am getting a flash caplocks light is that important? is it telling
> me something?
>
> I did have a 320gb hard drive in compaq machine but that was throwing
> up smart errors. I just had a live dvd freeze not sure why cos get
> into command line any anything had to hard reset holding power button
> till it restarted
>
> i will keep tabs on it now.
>
> will follow these instructions
>
https://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/
>
> thx for help
>
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Hello,
Can't really say much more but that sounds an awful lot like a kernel
panic, possibly a driver failure or something along those lines?

Cheers
Kris