F7 auto-rebooting unasked
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Sun Jun 10 15:01:56 UTC 2007
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:32:20 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:58 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>
>> Actually, no, I don't even know what logs to look in, not where to find
>> them. Is there a standard place to look?
>
> /var/log
>
> And using the "uptime" command, you can see how long it's been since
> your machine actually rebooted.
Now there are three of them definitely doing it! Two more did it this
morning while I sat here.
/var/log in two of them includes boot.log, boot.log.1, as well as .2,.3,
and .4; the other (which I was sure of yesterday) has only boot.log. The
fourth, an old P2 which has so far *not* been having the problem, has
boot.log and boot.log.1
Are those the logs I want to look in? And for what?
uptime for the three with problems lists times of around an hour; for the
old P2, it says 6 1/2 days.
Dunno if this is relevant. I make a habit, whenever I think of it
(probably two or three times a week; oftener when I've just installed a
brand-new release), of running a sequence of commands consisting of "yum
clean all" followed by "rpm --rebuilddb," then "updatedb," and finally
"yum update."
The strangest thing is that my main machine, which pulled the trick this
morning, is still running FC6.
We have had a few short (like under 10-second) power glitches here
lately; but all the machines are on UPSs, which barely managed to beep
once. What's more, the main machine, which rebooted spontaneously for the
first time this morning, is on the same UPS as the old P2, which did not.
One of these UPSs (an APC Back-UPS RS 1500) is only a month or two old.
Another (an APC Back-UPS 650) has some age on the battery, but has shown
no more sign of unhappiness than the others. The third (an APC Back-UPS
Pro 650) has some age on its present second battery, but has also not
complained.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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