Spontaneous Reboot

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:05:44AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> This morning while reading a web page my computer rebooted.  It rebooted
> again while checking the drives.  This is alarming, and I want to know
> why.  There was no user interaction, and no power surge as far as I can
> tell.

Bad power supply maybe?

> /var/log/messages has nothing of value in it.
> 
> Where else do I look for clues?  Thanks.
> 
> Debian 3.0
> # uname -a
> Linux hostname 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
> GNU/Linux

Hmm, that kernel is meant for install disks, not running systems
(although it won't cause the reboot, just ousy hardware support and
performance.)

Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 or kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 depending on
your cpu.

Lennart Sorensen
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