Machine set to "auto-shutdown"?

[jay]

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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:21:42 +0800
From: HaJo Schatz <hajo at hajo.net>
Subject: Re: machine set to "auto-shutdown"?
To: Fedora-Users List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:34 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> jay wrote:
> > I am running Fedora Core 3 on a desktop machine for a while now.
The
> > only problem that I seem to be having is that after it has been idle
for
> > a while the machine shuts down by itself.  Usually the screen saver
will
> > kick in and be on for a while and then the machine will just shut
down.
> > Other times I am working on the machine and it just shuts down.  I
am
> > not seeing an error message and the machine starts back up just fine
> > without going through any of the "the machine was shut down
improperly"
> > stuff.
> > 
> > Is that enough information for anyone to help?
> > 
> Yes.  First check the settings on the Advanced tab for Preferences -> 
> Screensaver.  There is the option in Power Management to power down
your 
> system as one of the settings.
No. That setting powers off the Monitor, it does not shut down the
system.

> Second, check your system's BIOS to see if there is a similar setting.
Again most likely wrong. The OP said that sometimes it also shuts down
while he's working on the machine.

jay: When the shutdown occurs, note the current time (assuming your
system clock is dead accurate) and post everything in /var/log/messages
from that time stamp until the machine is physically off.

If your machine shuts down properly, you may want to boot with kernel
options "apm=off acpi=off" to make sure there's no spurious pwr
management event causing your shutdown.

HaJo

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This is what my /var/log/messages file reads after one of my shutdowns:

Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart
Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost kernel: Critical temperature reached (-264 C),
shutting down
Feb 13 04:02:19 localhost shuttdown: shutting down for system halt

Now I have a temperature setting in my bios but I never had to adjust
this when running Windows XP.  In fact, it is still set to the default
bios settings.  Is there something that I can adjust in Fedore to
ignore, or set higher, this temperature setting?

Thanks,
Jason