On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:34 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > jay wrote: > > I am running Fedora Core 3 on a desktop machine for a while now. The > > only problem that I seem to be having is that after it has been idle for > > a while the machine shuts down by itself. Usually the screen saver will > > kick in and be on for a while and then the machine will just shut down. > > Other times I am working on the machine and it just shuts down. I am > > not seeing an error message and the machine starts back up just fine > > without going through any of the "the machine was shut down improperly" > > stuff. > > > > Is that enough information for anyone to help? > > > Yes. First check the settings on the Advanced tab for Preferences -> > Screensaver. There is the option in Power Management to power down your > system as one of the settings. No. That setting powers off the Monitor, it does not shut down the system. > Second, check your system's BIOS to see if there is a similar setting. Again most likely wrong. The OP said that sometimes it also shuts down while he's working on the machine. jay: When the shutdown occurs, note the current time (assuming your system clock is dead accurate) and post everything in /var/log/messages from that time stamp until the machine is physically off. If your machine shuts down properly, you may want to boot with kernel options "apm=off acpi=off" to make sure there's no spurious pwr management event causing your shutdown. HaJo -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
