[Gllug] Unexpected server reboot

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 04 Sep, Simon Morris wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Since it's summer, and hot this morning, I'd be suspicious of a
> > heat-related reason.  I've have one machine here which can't stand the
> > heat, and sends itself a (different) ACPI event which causes the
> > kernel to reboot.
> 
> Sorry to reply to a long dead thread... This might be handy for any-one
> searching the archives in the future.
> 
> The random shutdown happened again today...
> 
> [Fri Sep  4 10:47:04 2009] received event "button/power PWRF 00000080
> 00000001"
> [Fri Sep  4 10:47:04 2009] notifying client 4369[68:68]
> [Fri Sep  4 10:47:04 2009] executing action "/bin/ps awwux | /bin/grep
> gnome-power-manager | /bin/grep -qv grep || /sbin/shutdown -h now"
> 
> ...which we are putting down to a hardware fault on the server; we're
> going to replace the unit.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ~sm
> 

   The main power supply is switched on by the motherboard using power from
the standby supply from the same box, could be a faulty PSU.

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