System rebooting

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:50 -0700, Bob wrote:
> The system is rebooting at random times for some reason.  I looked in the
> SYSLOG but do not see anything that indicates the reason.  Is there some place
> that would indicate what the reason for the reboot is?

You almost certainly have a hardware problem, probably something to do
with the power supply. Unless you have reason to suspect the actual
grid, I would check all power connections from the socket to the
computer first in case something is loose. It could also be a failure in
power just to the drive, or a loose controller - double check that all
internal connections are good too.

> In the SYSLOG I see a long string of ^@ characters at the time of the reboot. 
> What do these characters mean?

That's typical of a very sudden stop. ou probably should run a
filsesystem check on that drive.

Regards, K.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
http://twitter.com/kauer389

GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882
Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A