Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:53:07 -0500
From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots with latest 2.6.16 RC-s
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:29:36AM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> >It could be, but it could also be hardware.
> 
> It seems to be the hardware. The machine has rebooted with both older 
> Xorg and kernels back to 2.6.14 so the software that worked doesn't work 
> anymore. Additionally it has rebooted with just rtorrent+lynx with no 
> console activity at all, and other new situations, so it really looks 
> it's the hardware (probably the capacitors).

Odd thing is, that there have been quite a few reports of "spontaneous"
reboots. (I didn't report, but I'm a "victim" too.) The hardware seems
to check out fine, but it is an older box (original 2GHz P4, etc.) so it
could be "just" hardware.

Jeff Sipek.
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