On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:13 +0100, Alain Cochard wrote: > Hello. I am running 40 workstations with 3 kinds of hardware, all > under fedora 8. From time to time -- about once every 3 days -- one > of the machine (not always the same) shuts itself down. Otherwise > they are running 24 hours a day every day. > > The excerpt of the /var/log/messages that seems relevant to me is > always similar to the following: > > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: received event "button/power PWRF 00000080 00000001" > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: notifying client 2271[68:68] > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: notifying client 2467[0:0] > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: client has disconnected > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: notifying client 2467[0:0] > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: client has disconnected > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: notifying client 2467[0:0] > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: executing action "/bin/ps awwux | /bin/grep gnome-power-manager | /bin/grep -qv grep || /sbin/shutdown -h now" > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 shutdown[19479]: shutting down for system halt > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: action exited with status 0 > Nov 18 15:12:26 epgs16 acpid: completed event "button/power PWRF 00000080 00000001" > Nov 18 15:12:27 epgs16 avahi-daemon[2211]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. > Nov 18 15:12:27 epgs16 avahi-daemon[2211]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 130.79.9.36. > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 hcid[2040]: Stopping SDP server > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 hcid[2040]: Unregister path: /org/bluez > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 input[2065]: Unregistered manager path > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 input[2065]: Exit > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 hcid[2040]: Shutting down local server > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 hcid[2040]: Exit > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 acpid: exiting > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. > Nov 18 15:12:28 epgs16 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. > Nov 18 15:12:29 epgs16 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="1.19.6" x-pid="1974"] exiting on signal 15. > > Thanks in advance for any tip on how to solve this problem. I am not an expert, but I think you can add the "acpi=off" option to the kernel entry in grub. That would stop it from shutting down the workstation, but it would also disable other stuff... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines