System just turned off

[Wade Smart]

Christopher Kelley wrote:
> 
> 
>  > 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
> 

20090704 1024 GMT-5

Yes, and Im on it now and have been. This is the first time its ever 
happened. And it could be that Im using 100% cpu and 100% ram with seti, 
browsers, a movie playing, google earth, and graphics apps open. I may 
have just over loaded the system.

Thanks

wade

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