Re: kernel-2.4.18-14 mysterious problem

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 18:31, Warren Togami wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:53, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 05:18, Warren Togami wrote:
> > > Ever since I upgraded to kernel-2.4.18-14 I have had this one strange
> > > problem where I would leave my laptop unattended for several hours and
> > > come back to find that it had powered itself off.  When I boot up again
> > > it goes through the ext3 journal replay, indicating that it had indeed
> > > crashed.  This occurred to me four times in the last 2 days.
> > >
> > > I have not observed it to unexpectedly power off while I am using it, so
> > > it might be an idle-only problem.
> > 
> > Hmmm. Hardware dropping into suspend/sleep mode, and there's no support
> > for a hibernation partition?
> 
> Nope, this thing isn't set to suspend.  The only thing changed is moving
> from kernel-2.4.18-12.5 to kernel-2.4.18-14.  It mysteriously powers
> itself off now every once in a while when I walk away for several hours.
> 
> I booted back into 2.4.18-12.5 today and it survived 12 hours of idle
> time so far... 2.4.18-14 didn't last this long.
> 

Since this message I have been using 2.4.18-12.5 until Sunday when I
booted back into 2.4.18-14.  In 2.4.18-12.5 it was fine for those
several days.  2.4.18-14 mysteriously powered off two more times since
yesterday.

Something strange happened between 2.4.18-12.5 and 2.4.18-14.