On Saturday 05 January 2008 06:50, Shibu Basheer wrote:
Hi,
I have a new installation of Open Suse. I find it to randomly shuts down, just like someone accidently presses the power button, or issue the shutodown command. There are no prompts, messages or anything, just starts shutting down closing everything that I've been doing.
Is this an orderly shutdown where the system switches run-levels and then powers of, or is it abrupt? Secondly, can you ascertain a pattern to when it shuts down, or is it apparently random? I had a system (actually, I still have an use it) that one day began exhibiting this sort of behavior. Specifically, it would behave as if the reset button had been pressed. It really bugged and perplexed me until one day I was connecting something (either USB or audio) to a front-panel connector and the system reset. This was the clue I needed. It turned out that there was an intermittent short in a USB connector on the front panel between its power line and ground. When this short occurred, the system would reset. I "solved" this problem through the simple expedient of disconnecting that front-panel USB port.
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Thank you.
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