I will be doing that tonight if I can get it to stay on long enough! :-) On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Hill <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:42:45PM -0800, Willie wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > > > I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that > > whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like > I > > did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random > times. > > I have been reading the logs but there is nothing helpful at all. It is > > never the same thing on the logs when it does just shutdown. Sometime I > can > > boot up and it will go off when it says "Waiting for udev events to > finish" > > or something like that. > > > > I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really nothing > > different. I installed Windows last night to see if it is a hardware > thing > > but nope it stays on. I also tried reinstalling Gentoo on a couple of > > occasions on another Hard Drive but it just shutdown while I was getting > it > > done. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be in Windows > after > > I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 desktop. > > Can you put app-admin/mcelog in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords and > emerge it? It's maintainer wanted right now, so the only way to get the > updated software is ~arch. This will give you /var/log/mcelog ... atm I'm > on > meds and can't remember the specifics to set it up ... "man mcelog" will > help. > > You can "dmesg | grep -i mce" now and see if there are any MCE errors. > -- > Happy Penguin Gymnastics >') > 126 Fenco Drive ( \ > Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ > [email protected] > 662-321-7009 > http://happypenguingymnastics.com/ > FB: http://tiny.cc/HappyPenguinGymnastics > > Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting > > -- Willie Matthews [email protected]
