From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrX5M-0002wQ-GF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:22:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6A8LSJR007315; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:21:28 GMT Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6A8Fskb013008 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:15:55 GMT Received: (qmail 32110 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2005 08:16:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp017.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2005 08:16:21 -0000 Message-ID: <42D0D9FE.9080802@asmallpond.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:19:10 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050623) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out. References: <42D070E1.3050101@yahoo.ca> In-Reply-To: <42D070E1.3050101@yahoo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d648c8e8-22e2-48f5-9806-a5bca6940773 X-Archives-Hash: 0e542a9e26d665afd8c075291ecdc491 Ian K wrote: >Hi there. >My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. >It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot >distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power >failure. (Nothing else dies, battery prescence is confirmed with >hardware lighting, and this lighting indicates a full charge. >I also see no real connections between what I am doing when >the computer turns off. Once, I was browsing the web in Firefox, >and tonight, I was playing around with the XScreensaver settings. >I have noticed, that it seems to only happen while in KDE, although >Im not 100% sure. Also, I have the KDE laptop battery monitor set >to do *nothing* if the battery should reach a warning or critical >power value. This has happened to be about 6 times over the last >few days. I also just got KDE emerged, so I can say its been happening >probably since it has been up. I have left it on for extended amounts >of time in the regular CLI though, without any problems. >I can't really think of anything else to say, but I should mention that >it **seems** to do a safe shutdown, but Im not sure. The power is >cut rather instantly, and I am not swished off into a system reboot >message. When I start it up again, ReiserFS claims the file system is >clean, and goes on to replay the journal as usual. Do any of >you have any thoughts on this? Thanks a lot! >Ian > > Are you getting anything in /var/log/messages? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list