Re: spontaneous reboots with latest 2.6.16 RC-s

From: Josef Sipek
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 02:54:26 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:29:36AM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> >It could be, but it could also be hardware.
>
> It seems to be the hardware. The machine has rebooted with both older
> Xorg and kernels back to 2.6.14 so the software that worked doesn't work
> anymore. Additionally it has rebooted with just rtorrent+lynx with no
> console activity at all, and other new situations, so it really looks
> it's the hardware (probably the capacitors).

Odd thing is, that there have been quite a few reports of "spontaneous"
reboots. (I didn't report, but I'm a "victim" too.) The hardware seems
to check out fine, but it is an older box (original 2GHz P4, etc.) so it
could be "just" hardware.

Jeff Sipek.
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