On Thursday, September 10, 2015 02:08:07 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). 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'd think it might be a temperature failure, so I expect I'd need to run > some thermal monitoring. > > Just in case you don't already know this, lm-sensors can be used to monitor your hardware sensors such as CPU temperature. (For the times you boot successfully). There are various GUI apps and widgets to display the sensors (e.g. gkrellm, Conky). lm-sensors daemon can also dump the sensors to a database such as rrdtool. You can also specify min and max values for some sensors, and an alarm will be sent if the sensor value falls outside these bounds.
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