Public bug reported: It just happens. This is on a Dell Inspiron 1521, an upgrade from 8.10. There's no one around, the machine isn't doing anything important, and suddenly things start receiving shutdown signals. The following appears in daemon.log and syslog and then the machine powers down.
May 9 21:12:47 uhuru console-kit-daemon[5603]: GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for `gchararray' passed as NULL May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty4 main process (5082) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty5 main process (5083) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty2 main process (5090) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty3 main process (5093) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty6 main process (5096) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:47 uhuru init: tty1 main process (6272) killed by TERM signal May 9 21:12:49 uhuru NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 8 -> 3 May 9 21:12:49 uhuru NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 38). May 9 21:12:49 uhuru NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 6586 May 9 21:12:49 uhuru NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_wifi_disable_encryption(): error setting key for device wlan0: Invalid argument May 9 21:12:49 uhuru NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): removing resolv.conf from /sbin/resolvconf May 9 21:12:50 uhuru kernel: [13146.111573] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,c000000 found May 9 21:12:50 uhuru console-kit-daemon[5603]: GLib-GObject-WARNING: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)' May 9 21:12:50 uhuru console-kit-daemon[5603]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_signal_emit_valist: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed May 9 21:12:50 uhuru console-kit-daemon[5603]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed May 9 21:12:51 uhuru postfix/master[5527]: reload configuration /etc/postfix May 9 21:12:51 uhuru NetworkManager: <WARN> check_one_route(): (wlan0) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Missing link name TLV (errno = Invalid argument) May 9 21:12:51 uhuru avahi-daemon[5930]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.10 on wlan0. May 9 21:12:51 uhuru avahi-daemon[5930]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.10. May 9 21:12:51 uhuru avahi-daemon[5930]: Interface wlan0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 9 21:12:56 uhuru rpc.statd[4971]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. May 9 21:12:57 uhuru postfix/master[5527]: terminating on signal 15 May 9 21:12:58 uhuru xfs[5572]: terminating May 9 21:13:05 uhuru exiting on signal 15 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Jaunty Upgrade: Spontaneous shutdown :( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs