On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 07:28, Andres Montiel, CUA <kyut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a headless Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 installed in the house. I
> occasionally reboot it remotely (sudo reboot) just to be sure everything is
> fine. Weird thing is it sometimes boots properly and I can ssh into it, and
> sometimes it just shows a black screen with a blinking cursor upon boot (I
> find this out after around 2 hours).

If it's headless, how can you see a "black screen"? ;)

> Any tips on where I should begin looking (what files should I examine) to
> find out the root of the problem?

Check the boot and system logs, and other usual suspects like failed
services, loaded modules, etc.

-- 
Ian Dexter R. Marquez
http://iandexter.com
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