Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:42:45PM -0800, Willie wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that
> whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like I
> did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random times.
> I have been reading the logs but there is nothing helpful at all. It is
> never the same thing on the logs when it does just shutdown. Sometime I can
> boot up and it will go off when it says "Waiting for udev events to finish"
> or something like that.
> 
> I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really nothing
> different. I installed Windows last night to see if it is a hardware thing
> but nope it stays on. I also tried reinstalling Gentoo on a couple of
> occasions on another Hard Drive but it just shutdown while I was getting it
> done.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be in Windows after
> I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 desktop.

Can you put app-admin/mcelog in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords and
emerge it? It's maintainer wanted right now, so the only way to get the
updated software is ~arch. This will give you /var/log/mcelog ... atm I'm on
meds and can't remember the specifics to set it up ... "man mcelog" will help.

You can "dmesg | grep -i mce" now and see if there are any MCE errors.
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