Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

[Willie]

I think you might be on to something. Here in Vegas it gets to be about 50
at night and I like to have my window open. That is when it turns off the
most. I have been using this computer for years with Windows and Ubuntu
Linux and this is the first time it has started to happen. Do you know of
any setting in Gentoo that I would need to change for this?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

>  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.
>
>  --
>
> Willie Matthews
> matthews.willie@×××××.com
>
>
> Do you have a setting somewhere that when a fan gets below a certain speed
> it shuts down thinking the fan has failed?  I know on mine I have to turn
> that feature off, especially in the winter.  Sometimes my fans only turn at
> a couple hundred rpms.  The mobo sometimes thinks the fan has failed.  It
> seems to vary by brand as to what it does when this happens but I suspect
> something in Linux not the BIOS itself.
>
> Since winders works, which is odd unto itself lol, then it has to be some
> setting in Linux.  I wouldn't think it would be the kernel since it usually
> locks up instead of cutting off.  Do you have lm-sensors installed?  I
> think it has the ability to do this sort of thing.  That would be IF this
> is causing the problem to begin with.  ;-)
>
> I'm sure you will get lots of ideas on this one tho.  There can be a lot
> of causes.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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>


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Willie Matthews
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