On Monday 22 January 2007 08:47, Simon Strandman wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a server running openSUSE 10.1 with all the latest updates. It
> had been running about 50 days since I last updated the kernel until
> yesterday when it suddenly rebooted. A friend of mine was logged in
> at the moment and got the usual "The system is going down for reboot"
> message so it wasn´t like somebody had triped on the power cord or
> something. I have really no idea why this happend. I checked with
> "last" and the only root logins where from me and not at that time. I
> checked /root/.bash_history but no reboot command had been given. I
> also looked at /var/log/messages but couldn´t find anything unusual.
> So any ideas why this might have happened?

Did the system reboot under software control, shutting everything down 
as if one of the reboot commands had been issued? Or did it restart, as 
if the hardware reset button had been pressed?

I had a system that suddenly began doing this one day. It turned out to 
be a bad USB front-panel connector that was shorting the power lead to 
ground, which was enough to make the system reset. I finally figured it 
out when it happend once just as I touched a USB plug that was inserted 
in that socket.


> Thanks,
> Simon


Randall Schulz
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