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My Raspi after 6 days of uptime just crashed. I wasn't able to see nothing on the screen, if I plugged a USB device, no action from it. And all the LEDs were steady and not a blink at all.

I have the debian distro.

I am trying to detect what could be the cause of the crash. I wanted to check the logs but for example I have zero sized messages:

-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 14 06:25 /var/log/messages

dmesg shows just current startup screen, and it doesn't provide any notice of some errors.

Where shall I look forward?

Update

I restarted yesterday too, and checking in the morning and it's crashed again.

Update

The raspi frezzes multiple times a day, problem got worst. I updated firmware and still happens, I tried ran memtester and it reported no memory issues.

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If your PC is nearby, you can leave the serial port connected like this in case it crashes again. Mine crashed once like this and I could see the kernel panic etc. in putty.

If plugging in the USB device is what caused it to crash, you may be able to replicate it. Also suspect the power supply - the power supply to the USB is not very well engineered in the revision 1 boards.

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