On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <m...@netbsd.org> wrote: > <j...@sdf.org> wrote: > >> +1. Had a laptop doing that due to something in the ACPI thermal system >> reporting an occasional rediculously high CPU? temp. Once I determined >> that the system really wasn't overheating I simply changed the appropriate >> script under /etc/powerd/ to not initiate shutdown. > > But the system does not reboot off powerd decision, it just reboots just > like if someone pressed the reset button (which is not the case, I know > it since it rebooted while I was there)
I went back and looked and the ACPI issue I saw was actually a power down, not a reboot. ACPI was receiving one of the S states (S3 I believe) because of a hardware bug. You mentioned ipmi, have you looked at ipmi logs? In another unlikely case, I had a motherboard which would cause panics because the clock on the memory needed to slow down. I think randomly it would just reboot without a panic, but memory issues usually cause panics as you pointed out. Andy
