>Does it come back again when you powercycle it ? Yeah, if i manually restart it, its just fine. >what do the lines starting 'l6' and 'ca:12345:ctrlaltdel' say ? 16:6:wait:/etc/rc 6 ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now Its quite an old box, Im not sure about having ACPI support with the kernel.