Sunday, December 20, 2009

Re: [BLUG] power off CD?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:11:29AM -0500, David Ernst wrote:
> So, we put the CD into the CD drive of my Ubuntu (Jaunty)
> machine... it spins up, and ... my computer turns off. power off. As
> if our power had gone out, but it hadn't.

You should check the kernel logs. (/var/log/dmesg.*)

Powering off is unusual. Now, kernel halting due to some hardware issue,
that's a lot more common.

I've seen low-level errors power off machines before. If you have logs
available in your CMOS/BIOS settings that may shine some light on it.

Cheers,
Steven Black

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