> I am a newbie for ArchLinux. > > My computer often shuts down suddenly when I browse web site. It brings me > to TTY and said "The system is going down for system halt NOW!". I found > that is because of the crash of flash plugin of firefox. > > And my question is why the crash of firefox can cause my computer shuts > down? > > PS. my system environment: Arch + awesome, no DE. > Thanks! Have you checked the log files? Especially /var/log/messages I'd boot in single user-mode after a shutdown and check the log files -- damjan