On 09/10/2015 02:08 PM, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> I have a system that has decided it wants to do spontaneous shutdowns. At
> first I had seen it was shutting down while I was booting it up (can't tell
> at which point it failed then, since it's on a KVM and I had it switched to
> the other machine while it booted).

The closest thing I've seen to this is a system running systemd go to sleep
during the boot process.  From what I'm told there are some odd interactions
that are possible between systemd and acpi scripts + event triggers.

There's an interesting talk about methods of debugging systemd boot issues
that happened at DebConf15 that might be helpful in debugging this:

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/Your_systemd_tool_box_dissecting_and_debugging_boot_and_services.webm

> Afterwards I was able to get it to boot
> all the way into the Mate desktop, and used it for about 10 minutes one
> time, about 30 min the next.  One time I actually got a popup asking whether
> I wanted to do a reboot, suspend, or shutdown, but it then just shut off
> before I could even respond. Afterwards it just shuts down without any 
> warning.
> 
> I'd like to set up some sort of monitoring/logging on it to see if I could
> catch what fails, since I couldn't see anything obvious in the logs in
> /var/log.

I would also suggest examining the output of 'journalctl' perhaps with some
parameters.

> I'd think it might be a temperature failure, so I expect I'd need to run
> some thermal monitoring.

That's also quite possible; for obvious reasons you'll eventually want to
figure out how to throttle the system rather than have it hit the
temperature limit and cause a shutdown.

   -- Chris

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