Re: System just turned off

> Christopher Kelley wrote:
>>
>>  > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:06:44 -0500
>>  > From: wadesmart@...
>>  > To: ubuntu-users@...
>>  > Subject: System just turned off
>>  >
>>  > 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
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > --
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> --cj
>>
>
> 20090704 1024 GMT-5
>
> Yes, and Im on it now and have been. This is the first time its ever
> happened. And it could be that Im using 100% cpu and 100% ram with seti,
> browsers, a movie playing, google earth, and graphics apps open. I may
> have just over loaded the system.
>
> Thanks
>