Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Matt M cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat issues, especially on laptops. Does it power right back on and stay on for a long time? If not I would suspect heat. If it does stay on, it may be a power management bug, a bad

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Erk. Firefox is sure slow. And gmail on FF is a habit I need to give up. Or get a more recent machine. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Matt M cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:42 PM, trondd tro...@gmail.com wrote: Check 'sysctl hw.sensors' and see if you have some temp sensors in there and what they're telling you. Tim. Now that you mention it, yeah, that command does tell the temperature and such. Right now:

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-22 Thread trondd
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: all at the time. All browser stuff. I was thinking less about load and more about firefox dying and taking the system with it. Firefox 26.0 from the openbsd 5.5 packages. Google even keeps telling me the browser is no longer supported by them. Need to

My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread Joel Rees
I'm looking under /var/log, but not seeing any logfiles to give me any clues. What information should I post? I have /var/log/messages from the moment of the crash, but it's about 36K. dmesg: --- OpenBSD 5.5-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sat Dec 13 14:38:02 JST 2014

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread trondd
Check 'sysctl hw.sensors' and see if you have some temp sensors in there and what they're telling you. Tim.

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread Matt M
Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat issues, especially on laptops. Does it power right back on and stay on for a long time? If not I would suspect heat. If it does stay on, it may be a power management bug, a bad power source or possibly a failing power supply in the machine. If it