System just turned off

[Christopher Kelley]

> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:06:44 -0500
> From: wadesmart at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: System just turned off
> 
> 20090704 0904 GMT-5
> 
> Just a few minutes ago I lost control of my computer.
> 
> I was watching a dvd and I started Google Earth to look up a location. 
> Google Earth came up, I saw Thunderbirds email notification in the 
> bottom corner pop up, then the screen went blank and my monitor turned 
> on a off about 8 times. Not the screen, but that little ticking sound 
> you hear when a monitor gets a signal from the pc. I finally had to kill 
> the machine and reboot.
> 
> I just sent through the syslog and this is the only thing I see today 
> that might be odd:
> 
> Jul  4 08:58:12 wadesmart init: tty4 main process (5050) killed by TERM 
> signal
> 
> 
> -- 

ive had that happen also, although very few and far between. The solution for me was to completely shut down my computer and boot it back up. Everything worked fine after that. Can you still get a gui after rebooting?

--cj
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