Troublesom info shutting down the computer

From: Garrett Gaston 
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My desktop (Mint Linux) has recently started giving me that black and white=
 screen with all the bullshit when I shut it down. It's hard for me to catc=
h everything but here's a few things I got written down in time.

-> Asking all remaining processes to terminate.

-> Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0.


Any ideas?

240 Gig Kingston SSD

AMD Athlon(tm) II 170u Processor

Memory: 3.6 GiB

64 bit
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From: William Wade 
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Often you can see the result of that in a log file. Check /var/log/syslog
(as well as syslog.[0,1]) (Mint might use /var/log/messages not sure)

Easy way to test is $ cat [filename] | grep lockup




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From: James Nylen 
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Add -i to that command since you wrote LOCKUP in caps:

cat filename | grep -i lockup