On Freitag 10 Juli 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Thank you to members of this list who have gotten me through a couple > of serious issues. I have another one. > > My system reboots at seemingly random times. Usually, this happens > during keyboard or mouse input. I have been using kernel 2.6.30-r2. > Often this happens when using firefox, but not exclusively. > > When I checked my machine, it had an uptime of nearly 4 hours after > the last reboot, when I had not logged in. However, after logging in, > I experienced two reboots in rapid succession. > > Interestingly, after I recompiled the kernel, enabling more modules of > I2C stuff, to enable hardware monitoring for my Motherboard, the > system has seemed to become less stable, and reboots readily. > > I usually use nvidia non-freedom drivers. I am now typing with the > x11 drivers, and the system has not rebooted. I am now also using > 2.6.29-r5. > > Once such things happened to me because I had a file with a filename > starting with "_" in my filesystem. Everytime I started nautilus, > firefox, or epiphany, the system would crash. This was some long time > ago. > > I have three SATA drives installed, with a plethora of partitions. > > I am not sure where to look in logs to look for evidence of problems. > May I set up the system to trap for such useful information? > > Alan Davis > > "...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but > you'd definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." > > -- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz
sounds like a) heat or b) psu problems or c) triple faults. c) is a lot of time caused by memory problems. One thing causing memory problems is a bad psu. so - in your case - just try a different psu. Ask a friend for one for a couple of days. If your problem stays, you have to look elsewhere.
