Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

[Willie]

I will be doing that tonight if I can get it to stay on long enough! :-)

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com
> wrote:

> 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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Willie Matthews
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