unexpected restart of computer

[Wade Smart]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 20090503 0920 GMT-5
> 
> In the past 24 hours, 3 times now my computer has rebooted.
> Well, thats not entirely accurate...
> 
> Just 2 minutes ago I was reading a article on a web site, I moved my 
> cursor up and to the left to back out of that page and my screen 
> instantly turned black. It takes between 5 and 10 seconds and then the 
> login screen pops up. So the computer hardware isn't rebooting, only the 
> OS.
> 
> Even trying to save your documents every few minutes is difficult on 
> something like this.
> 
> I looked in the logs but I don't see anything that would say something 
> occurred.
> 
> Wade

20090503 0931 GMT-5

I restarted my computer thinking if it goes all the way down and comes 
back up maybe it would stablize it... I then checked the logs and right 
at the top (almost) is this:

May  3 09:15:52 wadesmart gdm[22924]: WARNING: 
gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

Wade

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