Hi Hmm sounds odd... its possibly due to a HDD power down, and not powered up. Have you disabled all your power settings in the BIOS?
A log file that might help you diagnose is /var/log/messages - if there is anything interesting in there, post it here and we'll have a look. Cheers, Michael On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:03 +0000, Seif Attar wrote: > Hello, > > I have ubuntu 7.10 gutsyx64, installed on a new machine I bought, after > finally getting everything on there, I noticed that it keeps crashing! i > dont know what causes the crash, it doesn't happen when I am using it, > usually happens when I have left it for a while (no suspend used, only > blank screen on idle), when I try to resume my session, the screen works > normally i can move the mouse, see the applications that were already > running, but i cannot start new apps, cannot ssh into the machine, > cannot access apache! now you can imagine how annoying this can be, > especially when it crashed when i am away from home and need to access > it! > > Can any1 give me advise on how to troubleshoot this?? I can't run dmesg > and don't know what logs i should be checking since a hard shutdown is > forced! > > I did try disabling the nvidia-new driver, thinking it could be causing > the failure, but it still occured! > > Thanks in Advance, > Seif A. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
