Re: System just turned off

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>  > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:06:44 -0500
>  > From: wadesmart@...
>  > To: ubuntu-users@...
>  > Subject: System just turned off
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>  > 20090704 0904 GMT-5
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>  > Just a few minutes ago I lost control of my computer.
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>  > 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.
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>  > I just sent through the syslog and this is the only thing I see today
>  > that might be odd:
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>  > Jul 4 08:58:12 wadesmart init: tty4 main process (5050) killed by TERM
>  > signal
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> 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?
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> --cj
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