System Shutting Down Unexpectedly (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Tom Browder]

Thomas M. Browder, Jr.
Niceville, Florida
USA



On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:28, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:08, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> See the contents of "/var/log/pm-powersave.log" here:
>>>
>>>   http://paste.ubuntu.com/473218/
>>
>> Everything up to & including line 174 looks correct/normal & is what I
>> have on my system. I'd have to do some 'reading' to figure out 175 and
>> beyond. Maybe someone else on the list is familiar?
>>
>> Do you have anything in the pm-suspend logs?
>
> See:
>
>  http://paste.ubuntu.com/473249/
>
> BTW, I just got another shutdown.  When I pushed the power button the
> system started but without video--guess I need to undo those changes
> in sleep.d.
>
> I just found this in the "daemon.log" which occurred during one of the
> shutdowns this morning:
>
> Aug  4 09:54:12 bigtom AptDaemon: INFO: Quiting due to inactivity
> Aug  4 09:54:12 bigtom AptDaemon: INFO: Shutdown was requested
>
> It didn't show in the last shutdown, but maybe a clue?
>
> HTH--thanks, NoOp, for hanging in there with me!
>
> -Tom
>

Found two threads with AptDaemon mentioned:

1.  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1497384
2.  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491072

My BIOS is current (mobo is Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, Rev. 2).

I've watched cpu temps with services, no apparent problem.

I've had no swap or out-of-memory condition (8 Gb RAM).  I'm checking
with memtest now...

-Tom