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  Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610 Julio Cesar Mendez Carvajal <juliocesarmendez.carvajal@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 04:30 +0100
    Re: Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-12-29 06:00 +0100
    Re: Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-29 11:20 +0100
      Re: Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-29 13:50 +0100

#176037 — Constant crash on Debian 8.x in Dell T5610

Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable) in my workstation. I am facing frequent, but TO FREQUENT crashes in the system. As a result, the system restart too frequently. Is there any problem with the system or any other bug that other people have experienced with Debian 8.x. I am planning to switch to KDE, I have read that some user have switch to KDE for new workstations. 
Any help will be very helpful!!!

Thanks
JM

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#176044

On 29/12/16 16:03, Julio Cesar Mendez Carvajal wrote:
> Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable) in my workstation. I am facing frequent, but TO FREQUENT crashes in the system. As a result, the system restart too frequently. Is there any problem with the system or any other bug that other people have experienced with Debian 8.x. I am planning to switch to KDE, I have read that some user have switch to KDE for new workstations.
> Any help will be very helpful!!!

Crashes are unusual. Was the system stable with other versions of Debian 
or other operating systems?

My checklist:

(1) Basic hardware test:

- Test memory with memtest86+ (found at the boot prompt or on 
installation media).

- Stress test using mprime (prime95). Some crashes can be caused by 
stress due to overheating or power supply problems.

(2) Graphics drivers can cause crashes:

- What graphics device and driver are you using?

- If you are using a recent Intel Skylake CPU/IGPU, you are strongly 
advised to use a recent kernel.

Other culprits are BIOS or ACPI problems. These are very hardware specific.

lshw will list all your hardware.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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#176050

Julio Cesar Mendez Carvajal wrote:

> Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable)
> in my workstation. I am facing frequent, but TO FREQUENT crashes in the
> system. As a result, the system restart too frequently. Is there any
> problem with the system or any other bug that other people have
> experienced with Debian 8.x. I am planning to switch to KDE, I have read
> that some user have switch to KDE for new workstations. Any help will be
> very helpful!!!
> 
> Thanks
> JM

check your /var/log/syslog to find out what causes the crash and report back

The specs for the workstation are 
http://www.dell.com/ed/business/p/precision-t5610-workstation/pd

perhaps you need a newer kernel or some fine tuning to the kernel

regards

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#176057

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:09:22AM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> > Dear community; I have recently installed Debian 8.x (last edition stable)

8 dot *what* precisely?  There was a major change to the kernel's USB
code in the middle of the jessie series.  Before that, I had frequent
lock-ups on my home PC; after that, barely any at all.

When reporting crashes, you need to give more detail than this.

cat /etc/debian_version
uname -a
Any relevant sections from dmesg or /var/log/syslog
What you are doing when the crash occurs
etc.

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