On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I just came back in from watching a movie and found my machine sitting > at gdm... definately not in fluxbox with xchat and gkrellm running > (only apps running at the time). > --- snip ---- > Feb 22 22:08:32 imac kernel: Loaded 136 symbols from 6 modules. > Feb 22 22:08:32 imac kernel: Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=256Mb, BAT3=256Mb, residual: >0Mb > > Nothing spectacular at all... shows a few hours of it running, a few > cronjobs, and then nothing until syslogd restarts (from the reboot, I > imagine). > > Any ideas on where I else I might look to find some info on this? > It's extremely wierd... I've never had this happen on my imac before > (regular imac indigo with a larger (40GB instead of 20GB) drive and a > little extra RAM. > Hmm, not good. I've occasionally had spontaneous reboots here, but my machine is being beat on pretty heavily, running rpm-rebuild and updating itself almost constantly. I had one like you describe, when the cron stuff ran on top of a big build of glibc or something and triggered a panic, and recently pcmcia_cs built/updated itself and stopped/restart card services with my 4 firewire partitions mounted which just hung things in limbo until I manually rebooted. It's possible a power event triggered it too. My Powerbook, even though it has batteries, seems sensitive to line dips etc. My wife has kicked on the dryer before, which will sag that line and the PC, which is on a UPS is fine, although the UPS gripes, and the Powerbook, which isn't on the UPS will occasionally reboot. Unfortunately, since the logs didn't show anything, all we can do is guess what happened. If you can catch in action and get oops info maybe we can diagnose. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
