On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:57 -0700, Mark wrote: > This morning between 07:10 or so and 08:10 I discovered that my PC had > shut itself off. I thought it was due to a power failure becuase I > never turn it off without a good reason, and it had been running (and > playing sounds) until it wasn't. My roommate/landlord tells me that > the only anomaly he observed was that our router had lost its internet > connection (via a cable modem, which was still running fine), and his > computer, a laptop, and clocks all seemed to be running normally. > > I checked all the logs in /var/log and there's nothing in there other > than the restart - no temp warnings or anything. The machine has been > up and running smoothly since the last time I shut it off (to move), a > week ago last Friday (8/6). > > I don't have a UPS or BB, so is there any way that I can diagnose this further? > > Here's another weird thing - 'dmesg | grep Aug' shows this: > > Linux version 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 > 19:05:06 EDT 2010 > EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Aug 10 2010 > EDAC amd64_edac: Ver: 3.2.0 Aug 10 2010 > > That's probably when I last restarted after installing the new kernel. But: > > $ date > Wed Aug 18 11:52:23 PDT 2010 > > And /var/log/messages shows this: > > : > Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.0.2 port 67 > Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.2 > Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.100 -- renewal in 5154 se > conds. > Aug 18 06:44:28 marichter smartd[3829]: Device: /dev/sdb, 4294967295 Currently u > nreadable (pending) sectors > Aug 18 06:44:28 marichter smartd[3829]: Device: /dev/sdb, 4294967295 Offline unc > orrectable sectors > Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 (mockbuild@b > uilder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Tue > Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 > : > > What's up with that??? (Not the disk issue - that's a Seagate problem > that, fortunately, means nothing, and yes, I've gone through that one > before....) Why doesn't dmesg show the most recent boot? > > marichter 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64 > > Thanks. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Mark, You can look through the output of the 'last' command. last may tell you what the state of the system was before it rebooted/crashed and also the time it happened. 'last -x' will tell you more detailed information regarding system shutdowns and run level changes. Example of a crash: runlevel (to lvl 2) 2.6.32-24-server Wed Aug 18 10:10 - 15:44 (05:34) reboot system boot 2.6.32-24-server Wed Aug 18 10:10 - 15:44 (05:34) user1 pts/6 10.10.10.10 Wed Aug 18 09:37 - crash (00:33) -- Thank you, Preston Connors Atlantic.Net _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos