[ale] PC shut off

[Jim Kinney]

I've seen this before with a failing power supply. I've also seen this
associated with a bad motherboard. I have (sadly) also seen this once
associated with software that tried to put a system to sleep and just sent a
power off instead. I doubt that software is the culprit in this case since
it appears this is a home server and would not have need for sleep modes.

I would be most suspicious of power supply first. It's the easiest to change
and lest expensive.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> I'm still trying to figure out what happened. It doesn't look like there
> was a
> power outage ( no blinking alarm clocks ). My wife got up at 4am, and the
> computer was not on. My log shows nothing in the APC_events file, except
> the
> computer starting back up.
> syslog.0 shows:
>
> Jun 28 22:20:50 paulandcilla last message repeated 8 times
> Jun 29 04:07:41 paulandcilla syslogd 1.5.0#5: restart.
> Jun 29 04:07:41 paulandcilla kernel: klogd 1.5.0#5, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
>
> that 22:20 message is an email host mismatch error.. so it was receiving
> email, then... my wife hits the POWER switch at 4:07, to turn it back on. I
> have an APC UPS attached, that will shut it down in case of power outage,
> then UPS is on, and I'm not sure why the PC was off....
>
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