Alain Cochard wrote: > > 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. Linuxguy123 writes: > 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... Roger Heflin writes: > If you have instant off set in the bios, there are a number of > motherboards on which the power switch will pick up enough noise > (from the wires going to the power switch) to think it was send a > proper off signal even though no one is pushing the button... > > The easiest solution is to not set instant off. Thank you very much Linuxguy and Roger. About half of the machines -- the most recent ones -- have "instant off" in the bios. I will change the option and see if the problem remains. No equivalent option in older hardware? Has anyone some insight about the consequences of disabling acpi? Alain -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
