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Re: Sudden Power Loss (Resolution?)



On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:35 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote:
> I also see this on my old TiBook G4/400. There is one bad thing I do  
> have to avoid:
> if I forget to unplug a PCMCIA-CF card adapter with a CF card, and  
> close the lid for sleeping
> it will immediately be "dead", i.e. like forced power off.
> On restart I get a nice date of Jan  1st 1900 :-) it forces a disc  
> check and all that fun to wait for
> and all Gnome is messed up -- best to do is to boot strait into  
> single user mode and manually
> set the date and hwclock back to about "today" by date -s "106 years"  
> and hwclock --systohc or such...
> 
> Still running a old 2.4.18 or 22 kernel, I never got the newer onces  
> working any good on this machine.
> Especially video... but did not tried for some time.

Strange... I do test on one of these regulary. It should work just fine
with 2.6 kernels...

Ben.

> -Percy
> 
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> 
> > Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> FWIW, I used to have regular sudden shutdowns a couple of months ago.
> >
> > As a data point, I'm seeing that too on a rev1 Ti (G4 500), but it
> > might be a slightly different issue.
> >
> > It happened today for the second time in a couple of months, the
> > machine just shut itself down right after I woke it up from sleep (the
> > wake up procedure didn't complete).
> >
> > Kernel is a vanilla 2.6.11, no ntp daemon running, I use pmud, no
> > cpufreq daemon running (but cpufreq support is in the kernel, although
> > I never use it), the battery is a brand new one and it was on AC  
> > power.
> >
> > JB.
> >
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