hard drive going out?

[Ed]

When your system "crashes" like that, try to SSH into it from another
machine. It sounds like your window manager is crashing, not your
computer. If you can ssh into the machine, check the logs and set your
machine to restart without using PulseAudio, just to see if stops the
crashing. If your computer were crashing, the sound would stop with
the ram dump.

#palimpsest  will tell you how your disks are doing - a bunch of
failed SMART tests signal a failing drive - can't hurt to set up a
mirror.(I like rsync)

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:42 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could be a video driver and / or your video card.
>
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:26 AM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com>
> wrote:
> Hard drive failures usually have sound associated with them - a new brrr
> brrr brrr coming from the drive, and errors in /var/log/messages.  man
> smartctl is your friend.  You'll run something like smartctl -i /dev/sda
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft
>
> On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound continues as if all was well.
> it doesn't even miss a beat.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hsve my computer on and suddenly X crashes and on the screen there is:
>
>      *Pulse Audio
>
> and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now this happened
> before and I think it had to do with the hard drive being bad. Does that
> sound right?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
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