Re: sudden power loss (WAS: sudden power loss on tibook)
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:28 +0100, sascha brossmann wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Michael Schmitz<schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> > Nah, that calls for amore elaborate approach. I'd first verify 2.6.12 is> indeed OK (and it's not just your hardware that was still OK at 2.6.12> time)
> same problem here (powerbook5,2 w/ up-to-date breezy). i firstsuspected it could be a hardware defect, given that my pb hat recentlybeen on repair and the airport slot decided to drop dead only twoweeks later. but then, it happens only in lx and not in osx, whichmakes me infer, that it is *not* the hardware. more workload in termsof doing something or network activity seems to make the power losseslikelier, though this is just a guts feeling. i mean to rememberthough, that immediately before the box switches off there seems to beincreased fan activity. OTOH no logs, no messages, nothing. OTTH theremight be something generated but not getting written anymore to disk.
> given the *extremely* irregular frequency of this failure i can wellimagine that it went by undiscovered until too late. and while i amsomewhat happy that it doesn't happen very often, i suspect thatexactly this turns it into a harder problem, as well. :-(
> if there is something needing to be tested, let me know.
> best,
Hrm... never happen on any of the machines I have around here.
Could it be related to the temperature ?
Ben.
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