On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:57:30PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 30-Oct-06 cl@isbd.net wrote:
My Slackware 11 keeps shutting itself down but I can't see why.
In /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages there are messages from apache and samba saying they're shutting themselves down because they've been told to but I can't see a reason anywhere.
It happens fairly randomly anywhere from once every ten minutes to once every several hours. It reboots all by itself and continues running.
It's not a temperature problem as the system is way below the BIOS alarm temperatures.
Any ideas as to how to diagnose this or places to look?
Maybe the OS has temperature levels set (checking the sensors) which are lower than the BIOS alarm levels?
Yes, I did wonder about that but I can't get any of the Linux sensor stuff to talk to me at all at the moment.
Another place it might be worth looking is the automatic power management and whether you might be having power supply problems.
I have apm turned off because it says it's not compatible with SMP.
You could look through /etc/inittab to see if there's anything special that could trigger a jump to RL6.
Nothing odd there that I can see.
But it's a bit of a puzzle!
It really seems unlike a heat/power problem as using the system seems to stop it rebooting, it's *never* done it while I'm actually sitting here using it (like now), it only reboots when I go away. Maybe it's lonely!