** Reply to message from James Jones <jamesjones01@mchsi.com> on Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:00:27 -0600 > Running RH 8.0, with all the patches that the little red check mark has > warned me about. > > I came in one afternoon to find my system powered off, and pushing the > power button did no good. Took it in for diagnosis, and was called > back: it worked for them. > > Sure enough, I went in, and there it sat. I've backed things I can't > reinstall up to CD-R...but now I'm finding out a little more about the > symptoms. > > When I log in and startx (call me paranoid; I start up in text mode), > the Redhat splash window appears and things grind for a while as > usual...and then the system abruptly powers off. I have to unplug > before I can turn it back on. OK...is it the graphics card, or the > NVidia driver I downloaded? Perhaps...so I log in as someone else and > startx. No problem. > > So...something about how my X or Gnome session starts up is making the > system unceremoniously shut off the power. Because it does that, > checking the session log isn't going to find anything. Once I send this > out, I will grab memtest86 and see whether my RAM is OK. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. How can I go back to the way that my X > and Gnome sessions are initially set up for me? As root, try this from a console: /sbin/service apmd stop /sbin/chkconfig apmd off This should do it. jb -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
