Auto save an epic fail!

[El Presidente]

All those buldings I added in the last few minutes were lost due to autosave not saving often enough. Is there a way to get the auto save to save more often? My computer keeps rebooting every few minutes. I bought a can of air and used the air and my vacumme cleaner to clean it but it didn't help. I use Linux - Kubuntu 16.04 - so probably not a virus.

[Skybreaker]

Hi El Presidente.
So it is not about the auto-save, but about your system in general, as it is rebooting after a few minutes.
So best would be checking if this problem is hardware, or software-related. Cleaning up was a nice option, as this might cause overheating and therefore security-measures and reboots, same for the built-in components: when there is not enough space and parts generating too much heat near components having the same difficulties and probably not enough coolers, this might also be the reason.
Also you should check your system, if there are new drivers available, anti-virus scanner might be a good idea to simply sort this out as well.
If all fails, feel free to send over your system specs (OS+bit, CPU, GPU and RAM) and/or reinstalling Linux, if you can exclude hardware/overheating being the problem causing your machine to reboot frequently.
-cheers

[El Presidente]

I recently bought a new NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 730 for about 50 bucks from PNY. I suspect the cooling fan is simply to small for Turlock California for the summertime. I find the computer runs just fine if I don't run the game. The computer runs just fine until the afternoon when our favorit star (the sun) starts making the compressor so hot that the AC can't keep up anymore. I suspect the small GPU fan simply can't keep the GPU card cool enough. That's what I get for buying a low cost DirectX 12 capable card. I guess you have to live where it's cooler to get away with that. Lol.

[[sH[!]Ne]]

You might be able to find a better GTX card in this price range. Just sell this one and get a better one. Good luck! (People in cold areas always dream of better weather btw ;))

[BlackBloodRum]

Hi El P,

Can you check your computer temps please?

Open up:

Nvidia X Server Settings > Thermal Settings

Launch the game play for a few minutes (pre-reboot) and quickly alt-tab to the Nvidia settings to see it's last reading, should give you an indication if it's a graphics heat issue.

However, it could also be a CPU issue.

For this you'll need to install "lm_sensors" package, most distributions ship it, it's usually packaged as "lm_sensors" or "lm-sensors", so a simple apt-get install lm-sensors should install it.

Once installed you'll need to configure it, simply run "sudo sensors-detect" - for this most part this should work out the box (or at least, it does on Fedora)

Then as a normal user you can run the "sensors" command to check your current cpu temperature and other thermal read outs.

All in all, it should give you an idea as to where the problem lives :-).

(Also note, when linux does crash, it never auto-reboots, worse case is a kernel panic and in that situation it'll just throw errors and flash your keyboard LEDs to indicate a kernel panic. But it will not reboot unless you tell it to.)

[El Presidente]

Except that it dose reboot. I thought was unlickly to since I have never befor seen any distro reboot unless you tell it to. This one is doing what seems unlikley and doing it often. s I said above I think it's just that the gpu card's cooling system just can't handle Turlock California's Summer heat highes. It worked just fine this morning and I might try it again in a little while. Sunset occured a while ago so maybe by 10 or 11 I might be able to play a little.Of course the days are about to get hotter. By July I expect average day time temperatures to be over 100 degrees Farinhight. Could be as high as 110! I hate summer time here!

[BlackBloodRum]

Sounds to me like its your motherboard rebooting you, not Linux.

if it is indeed Linux have you checked your logs after the issue occurs to see if there's any hint as to what happened?

If you're running systemd like all the cool kids are these days, this command will show you the kernel logs from your previous boot:

sudo journalctl -k -b -1 -xr

You can remove -xr so it shows oldest messages first, but I prefer to show newest messages first so I don't have to scroll for hours .

the "-1" indicates how far back you want to go, so -1 one boot ago, -2 two boots ago etc...

A normal reboot will end somewhat like this:

systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...

and of course, a kernel panic will end like this:
kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000ff00ff0000
kernel: ---[ end trace 7f556d854ed35583 ]---

Let me know what you find :-).

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by sH!Ne:

(People in cold areas always dream of better weather btw ;))

I know I do. I want more rain and chill winds but nooo. I have to keep up with this damned sunshine, clear blue skies, and green trees. >:/

On-Toipic: If you have fan expansion slots then I would suggest buying more fans if it's a temperature issue. Liquid cooling might also be something you want to take a look at for your system as you live in Cali. :)
All assuming you have the space in your case.