Check /var/log/acpid (or whereever acpid logs for you) and see if you got a power button message about then. I had this problem on a machine at work and I've had to disable the power button in acpi. Jim Scott wrote: > My Fedora 8 system (x86_64, kernel 2.6.23.9-85) started to > spontaneously reboot this week. From what I've read, it's most likely > a motherboard or power supply failure. Is there anything I can do with > Fedora to help troubleshoot this? > > /var/log/messages doesn't seem to tell me anything useful. The last > reboot came around 9:20. > > Jan 6 08:50:44 MainPC yum: Updated: mythtv-setup - 0.20.2-170.fc8.x86_64 > Jan 6 08:55:37 MainPC ntpd[2154]: synchronized to 216.14.98.234 > <http://216.14.98.234>, stratum 2 > Jan 6 09:20:23 MainPC rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" > swVersion="1.19.11" x-pid="2015"][x-configInfo udpReception="No" > udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart > Jan 6 09:20:23 MainPC kernel: rklogd 1.19.11, log source = /proc/kmsg > started. > > Is there anything I can do to enable more logging of this issue? > Here's my rsyslog.conf: > > # Log all kernel messages to the console. > # Logging much else clutters up the screen. > #kern.* /dev/console > > # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. > # Don't log private authentication messages! > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages > > # The authpriv file has restricted access. > authpriv.* /var/log/secure > > # Log all the mail messages in one place. > mail.* -/var/log/maillog > > > # Log cron stuff > cron.* /var/log/cron > > # Everybody gets emergency messages > *.emerg * > > # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file. > uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler > > # Save boot messages also to boot.log > local7.* /var/log/boot.log > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080106/46bee116/attachment.htm