[Gllug] Mysterious reboot

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 17:56 +0000, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got home from work today to find that my machine had mysteriously 
> restarted. It is normally up for weeks or months without the need to 
> restart and over the last 4 years I have never had this happen, and 
> I leave the machine on 24x7. I have checked the syslog etc. and I can 
> find no reason for a shutdown, just a message in the log that states 
> restarting. Does anyone have any idea why this might have happened, 
> surely if there was a failure I would not get restarting in the log. 

I think you'll find that when syslogd says "restart", that's exactly
what it means - it's restarting.  It does not mean "shutting down
preparatory to restarting" - it means "restarting".

Do you have any shutdown messages in the log before the "restart"
message?  If not then it's almost certainly a power glitch or outage.
The "restart" message appears as the system starts up again.

HTH
John

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