Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel
>From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:10:33 +0100
>Reply-To: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>
>Priority: Normal
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>First, no reason to worry!
>
>On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote:
>
>>I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also
>
>No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have
>you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down?
I am not so sure about what you say. True, I have not actually
physically observed a shutdown. But, I have seen the console screen
at the start of a work day that normally would be the screensaver
running. Also, why is the clock on the bios wrong?
>>the system clock is being changed when this unexplained shutdown /
>>restart occurs. This is best demonstrated by the following entries in
>>my /var/log/messages file (Debian 2.1)
>>
>>Jun 9 06:55:21 fea -- MARK --
>
>This is just a "still-alive" message from syslogd. You can safely ignore
>it (or stop it by specifying "mark.none" for /var/log/messages).
Well, I knew that, but, thanks I did not know how to turn it off.
>>Jun 9 06:58:01 fea exiting on signal 15
>>Jun 9 05:01:33 fea syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart.
>
>This is just produced by a daily script that trims the logs. To do this
>you have to stop syslogd/klogd, trim the logs, then restart both. If you
>trimmed the logs while the two daemons are still running they wouldn't be
>able to create/append to the logs anymore.
>
>Again: I don't think there is a reason to be alarmed.
No. I won't be changing the daily log stuff. I hope you are right.
However, another thing I have observed that I did not mention. I use
an APC UPS. It also shut the system down one day for no apparent
reason. Other machines with and without UPSs: no problems reported.
When observing the upsstat.log file, I see the ups went from an
average of 22% to nearly 50% when I got the new motherboard (old
processor was a 166 Mhz PI). It also seems to fluctuate (+- 2-3%). I
am not sure whether the battery may be going bad or if the UPS is not
large enough. It doesn't make sense being a 600 watter. I will swap
with another one to test this theory.
Thanks for you help...
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