<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Robert Moskowitz <<a href="mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com">rgm@htt-consult.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I did a yum update this morning; picked up about 20Mb of new stuff. 1:20 min later the system just up and powered off. There is nothing in /var/log/messages between the yum update messages and the start messages. ANy thoughts and what caused this? Here is what I got today: Jan 06 08:41:52 Updated: 2:gimp-libs-2.6.8-1.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:41:55 Updated: krb5-libs-1.7-15.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:28 Updated: 2:gimp-2.6.8-1.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:38 Updated: devhelp-2.28.1-2.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:39 Updated: 2:gimp-help-browser-2.6.8-1.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:41 Updated: krb5-workstation-1.7-15.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:43 Updated: krb5-devel-1.7-15.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:47 Updated: gdb-7.0.1-19.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:49 Updated: less-436-5.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:51 Updated: psacct-6.3.2-59.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:42:55 Updated: 2:shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-2.fc12.i686 Jan 06 08:43:23 Updated: selinux-policy-3.6.32-63.fc12.noarch </blockquote><div> Certainly, it was a hardware problem. Computers worn off, just like us. There is nothing in these updates that justify the shutdown... </div></div>-- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ