Take a look at /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog the reboot could be (1) thermal (overheating) (2) hardware issue: cpu, mobo, add on card...
At this pt, I'd check over heating since you had a lot of stuff running. You can check cpu and mobo temps etc with any number of utilities. You can use BOINC (seti@home etc) as a stress test. Is the CPU heatsink loose? When was the last time you reseated it with fresh thermal paste? Good luck. Ed On 4/15/13, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > Like last Thursday my machine rebooted itself while I was working. No > warning. Just a reboot. Unlike last Thursday, when the login screen > appeared it was normal -- not the blank right hand screen and shifted > left hand screen. This leads me to believe that last Thursday there may > have been more than one problem, the video one having been fixed over > the weekend with the re-installation of the nVidia driver, and the new > EVGA card. > > I looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it just shows how it booted up > after the unexpected reboot. > > Is it likely any log would show what caused the reboot, and if so, which > one? > > If it matters, this is Ubuntu 12.04. The programs open at the time were > Thunderbird, Firefox, Nautilus, Skype for Linux, VirtualBox with USB > support running Win 2k running Express Scribe, another instance of > Nautilus, LibreOffice Calc, and LibreOffice Writer. > > Thanks for any clues. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
