Re: brutal shutdown

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:26:21PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > since some days (don't know exactly when, but some days ago, and it
> > keeps increasing), my powerbook (g4/15" 5,6) stops suddenly. Brutal
> > shutdown without anything written in the logs.
>
> I have noticed similar problems with my Powerbook G4/15" 3,5.
> Sometimes I come back from some activity and my Powerbook is just...
> turned off.  I have to boot it again.  When I boot, my clock is set to
> some weird date (Jan 02 1950 2:32 AMT (some Mars (yes) timezone)).

That sounds a lot like a PMU problem.  Have you tried resetting the PMU?

Rick