Andy Green wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I'd be interested to know how I can find what was happening >> at the moment of failure. >> I've looked in /var/log/messages but there is nothing unusual there. > > Try leaving it on after doing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if there is any > diagnostic to be seen there after the crash. I suspect the problem is something to do with X (the machine has an ATI Radeon 9600 card), so I guess running in text mode will not find the problem. Still, I'll try that to see if it does stop the machine crashing. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland