Paul Brossier <piem@altern.org> writes: >> since 2 or 3 weeks ago, my laptop has just switch-off 3 or 4 times. i >> haven't detected a pattern, except that i was always on AC power (and >> most probably using emacs, since i spent most of my time in there). >> and suddenly, poof, the laptop switches off, like it does when you >> hold down the power button. upon rebooting, nothing seems wrong, >> *except* that the clock has been reset to Jan 1st 1904 (sic)!!! >> >> i have no clue what's causing this behaviour, or wether it's a hw or >> sw problem: has anybody suffered from something similar? > > this happens to me when the battery is removed from the laptop for 30 > seconds or so. i would first suspect your battery is dying. does it seem > to charge fine? what does syslog says? > yeah, the battery seems to be working without problems. as a matter of fact, it's almost new: the original one was replaced a month or two ago, since it was one of those under spontaneous ignition danger. i can't see anything out of order in syslog: the last activity before the more recent hang-up is leafnode's fetchnews and texpire, which seems to be working fine too. btw, i almost never switch the laptop off, so i'd say this has always happened after many sleep/awake cycles (not that i think that's the problem, specially because the problem has never appeared just after sleep or awake, but...) thanks for your help, jao -- The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)
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