------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:21:42 +0800 From: HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: machine set to "auto-shutdown"? To: Fedora-Users List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1108311703.6139.25.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain 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 This is what my /var/log/messages file reads after one of my shutdowns: Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost kernel: Critical temperature reached (-264 C), shutting down Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost shuttdown: shutting down for system halt Now I have a temperature setting in my bios but I never had to adjust this when running Windows XP. In fact, it is still set to the default bios settings. Is there something that I can adjust in Fedore to ignore, or set higher, this temperature setting? Thanks, Jason
