System just turned off

[Wade Smart]

marc wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> I had this happen on 9.04. Turned out to be overheating caused by the
> video driver regressions in Jaunty. I was streaming a TED video at full
> screen. Never happened on previous versions, and I'm avoiding that
> scenario until the video issues are fixed.

20090705 1126 GMT-5

Well, I just had something else happen.

I was watching the training dvd using VLC (same as before) with only 
Opera, Thunderbird, a Tomboy note and gedit open and my screen kinds 
studdered a bit and then all the apps had a weird look to them. They 
werent smooth - they were edgy. Reminds me of going from XP default 
theme and turning off all the nice stuff - you get that hard looking 
windows 95/98 looking desktop.

A error popped up really fast about bonobo had failed - or something 
similar.

This is from the sys logs from that point in time:
Jul  5 10:40:43 wadesmart init: tty1 main process (6523) killed by TERM 
signal
Jul  5 10:40:45 wadesmart gdm[6306]: GLib-CRITICAL: 
g_hash_table_lookup_extended: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
Jul  5 10:40:45 wadesmart gdm[6306]: WARNING: Request for invalid 
configuration key xdmcp/Enable=false
Jul  5 10:40:45 wadesmart avahi-daemon[5601]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Jul  5 10:40:45 wadesmart avahi-daemon[5601]: Leaving mDNS multicast 
group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.104.
Jul  5 10:40:46 wadesmart postfix/master[5932]: terminating on signal 15
Jul  5 10:40:47 wadesmart NetworkManager: <debug> [1246808447.382713] 
nm_hal_device_removed(): Device removed (hal udi is 
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_vboxdrv_0').

Im shutting down my computer now to open it up and make sure there is 
nothing blocking or covering anything. (a mouse maybe :D) (just joking).

Im running 8.04 but that doesnt mean Im not all of the sudden having a 
similar problem.

What is a TED video?

Wade

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