On 9/25/2010 8:06 AM, g wrote: > On 09/25/2010 02:21 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > <snip> > >> Well g, if I could afford a UPS that had a longer run time than two >> hours I would have it!. > an ups should not be considered as a means to keep a system up and > running until power is restored. that is not a battery system, unless > you have an auto start gas powered generator to kick in and supply mains. > > it should be thought of as a means to allow a proper shutdown if > power is not restored within a short period. > > an ups that will supply just 5 or 10 minutes of up time is better > than none. > > the name ups, uninterrupted power supply. not un-interruptible > power supply, as in continuous. > > a good ups, runs from a floated battery. that is, it is powered by > battery and ac mains supply a low level charging. > > this way, when mains are lost, you are already on battery power, so > there is no 'glitch' of sine wave. > > once mains are lost, a signal notifies system and a proper shutdown > can be started. > > >> I am leaning towards a hack or a corruption of Network Manager. > yes. jb's points are much to be considered. > > here again, 'rpm -V|--verify *' should be run. > > much luck on your recovery. > Excellent description. That being said the reason I have such a big honking APC brand UPS is that my company's Logistics department overbought on a major contract! Rather than paying Inventory Tax on the extras the Boss sold them to several of us below our Dealer cost! I have approx. two hours run time but, this outage lasted over three and 1/2 hours while no one was home! According to my logs I did get a controlled shutdown on all three of my servers, the two Red Hat ES 4 severs have no problem only my Fedora 13 server. Thus I am leaning more towards a hack that was just waiting for ANY reboot to pounce! Especially after I got this: # rpm -V| --verify * bash: --verify: command not found rpm: no arguments given for verify Something is not right! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines