[tlinux-users:07721] Re: Fwd: sudden power off on SUSE 10.0

On Saturday 04 March 2006 14:41, Isaac Charles wrote:
> Thanks for the help, folks.  I have made progress, but still don't have a
> full solution.
>
> To get caught up:
>
> 1) this is indeed a linux problem.  It has never happened under Windows.
> 2) the machine is not overheating.  The fan is running at the appropriate
> times under linux and is rarely even going into high speed stage.  the
> bottom of the machine is not hot to the touch.  So this is an issue with
> false signals or mis-interpretation of signals, not an actual thermal
> problem (assuming that's what the sudden poweroff is even about)
> 3) no /var/log/messages didn't show anything.  I checked previously, with
> no data about the shutdown at all.  I searched the other /var/log files as
> well.  nothing.
>
> Peter, thanks for the acpi=off thing.  This indeed seems to keep the
> machine from exhibiting its problems.  Unfortunately, my power meter is
> also hosed. Apparently with acpi-able machines, apm doesn't do the job for
> battery meters.  Definitely a shame, as now I'm subject (if I'm not
> careful) to sudden poweroffs due to dead battery.
>
> Soooo... the big question becomes: is there a fix for the acpi thing?  I
> did some web searching and found a page about rewriting the ACPI byte-code,
> but I'm pretty sure that's something I don't want to do.  I'm running
> nearly the newest linux kernel, so one would assume that the kernel ACPI
> stuff doesn't have an update.  I'm still going to build a custom kernel
> when I get a chance, and see what that does.
>
> Are there any daemons/utilities that I should try updating as well?
>

Well, I know others have suggested it may be a distro thing, but this happens 
on my Kubuntu  A75-S213.  Why this thing decided to pickup this habit is 
beyond me.  However, I have also experienced it in Windows once (of the VERY 
few times I even had windows booted up).  The best I recall about that was 
trying to do something fairly processor heavy, but I can't remember.

I'm beginning to wonder if its a key stroke combination because if I'm not 
careful I'll hit the 'fn' key.  But this is really starting to get annoying 
for me.

I guess a good thing to look up would be keystrokes that could possible lead 
to this.

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