Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
On 06/12/05, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:19:44 + > Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and > > properly connected, both those on the outside and inside. > > > > You can also try running from

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Lytle
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:19:44 + Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and > properly connected, both those on the outside and inside. > > You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with > another installation an

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and properly connected, both those on the outside and inside. You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with another installation and see if the problem still occurs, if it does, you know it's a hardware problem and not

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:04:05AM -0800, Rob wrote: > The idea of running Mozilla or Firefox from a terminal was a very good one. > I am getting an error message: (Gecko:40685) Gdk-WARNING **: > gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass > G_MAXLONG?) > > I wi

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-05 Thread Rob
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:54:11 -0600 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am experiencing occasionally spontaneous reboots. They > >seem to occur when I am using Xorg and Mozilla. However, the > >last time it happened I exited Mozilla, started Gnumeric, then >