Andrew Ayre wrote: > I have noticed that perhaps one time in five Linux will partially > shutdown during milling. It's a bit hard to describe but the Gnome > desktop is replaced with a text screen of what looks like the tail end > of the bootup sequence: > > Operation [OK] > Another operation [OK] > Running startup scripts in /etc/rc.local [OK] > > There are no messages and EMC2 continues to generate pulses - which > cause the X and Y axis to move the spindle in a straight line. A quick > press of the power button turns off the power. > > I booted and checked dmesg, user.log, syslog and messages. Nothing was > recorded to indicate a problem. The syslog only had the 30 minute marks > in it. This may be a crash of the X-windows server. You didn't, by any chance, hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? That is the command to kill the X server. If X is actually crashing, the message file is in /var/log/XFree86.0.log and may show some useful info.
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