computer reboots on its own

Michael bmike1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 17:56:24 MST 2019 

any idea where unattended upgrades is on a Mint system? Some guy had a
similar problem "This led me to checking
etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades I had set
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; I changed it back to the
default setting of false."
https://askubuntu.com/questions/202335/how-can-i-track-the-cause-of-random-reboots

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:20 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> apparently some guy had a similar problem and this is what he said:
> This command shows that my system came up with a new kernel. Ubuntu 12.04
> 64 bit. 3.2.0-63 after reboot, 3.2.0-61 before
> – Antonios Hadjigeorgalis May 26 '14 at 14:20
> 4
> This led me to checking etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades I had set
> Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; I changed it back to the
> default setting of false.
> – Antonios Hadjigeorgalis May 26 '14 at 15:31
>
> found- https://askubuntu.com/questions/202335/ ... om-reboots
> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/202335/how-can-i-track-the-cause-of-random-reboots>
> but there was no 'unattended upgrades' line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 9:04 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> darn....... it just rebooted on its own. lovely:( well, it was fixed for
>> fourteen days at least.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:07 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, thanks.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 11:26 PM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac at oscontext.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> CLI CDRW is not something that I have done - I can't remember the
>>>> burner software I used. I told it the ISO and it burned and closed the
>>>> disc.  I am travelling at the moment, so when I get home I will look.  As
>>>> for the nomenclature of the device, in RHEL land it is usually labelled as
>>>> /dev/cdrom{0-9}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mac
>>>> Michael wrote on 10/5/19 6:54 PM:
>>>>
>>>> also what is the rw listed as? /dev/sdc? if that is so I would issue
>>>> the command 'sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc'.... right?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:34 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> well.... it seems blowing it fixed it. thank goodness!  my cdrom is
>>>>> not working and I don't recall if it boots to the USBCDRW. I seem to
>>>>> remember that it was booting from a thumb drive last year (if I remember
>>>>> correctly).... or was it the USBCDRW.... hmmmmm..... hey ET... how do I
>>>>> write the image to  the usbcdrw?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:12 PM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac at oscontext.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have had that happen before when a BIOS only partially supports
>>>>>> boot from USB. Have you booted from USB on that system before?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have a CD you could burn the iso to and try. That sounds so...
>>>>>> old fashioned, but I have a couple of 10 yr old dell workstations that
>>>>>> don't properly USB boot that I used before I discovered I could replace
>>>>>> them with a couple of RasPis.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mac
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael wrote on 10/3/19 3:47 PM:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Yepers.... just notes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM Stephen Partington <
>>>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, just notes.  at least from the looks of them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are those your passwords on the sticky notes?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 4:53 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> what a mess my computer desk is
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:50 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [image: 20191002_193516_01.jpg]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> > what do you advise I do...
>>>>>>>>>>> Call Geek Squad?   8)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Can you send me a picture of the screen you get?
>>>>>>>>>>> Memetest is (or was) prtty straight forward.
>>>>>>>>>>> Even *I* could use it!   ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>> ET
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Michael writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> >  Okay e t I bought a USB drive and ran the command 2 put the
>>>>>>>>>>> memtest on it
>>>>>>>>>>> > but when I boot it gets to verifying DMI pool and just sits .
>>>>>>>>>>> I've had a
>>>>>>>>>>> > going for about 15 minutes and nothing's happened what do you
>>>>>>>>>>> advise I do
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 6:38 AM <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> You only need 500MG.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> A USB HD that size will be cheaper than the can of air.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Buy one too!
>>>>>>>>>>> >> ET
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Michael writes:
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > all the fans are working. I'll try the memtest.... I don't
>>>>>>>>>>> have a spare
>>>>>>>>>>> >> usb
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > drive large enough.....
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > $ sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > dd: writing to '/dev/sdc': No space left on device
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > 128001+0 records in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > 128000+0 records out
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > 65536000 bytes (66 MB, 62 MiB) copied, 21.5638 s, 3.0 MB/s
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > bmike1 at MikesBeast:/tmp$
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > I'll take care of it tomorrow
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:48 PM <kitepilot at kitepilot.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> I agree that heat is a big suspect, but it could also be
>>>>>>>>>>> some creative
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> video
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> driver or a bad memory.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Give memtest a try:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> ET
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Matthew Crews writes:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > On 9/28/19 4:31 PM, Michael wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Thank you so much for the help I really truly
>>>>>>>>>>> appreciate it.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > No problem, its what we are here for.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>     Does it reboot while you are using it? Are you
>>>>>>>>>>> using very
>>>>>>>>>>> >> intensive
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>     applications on it, or very not-intensive
>>>>>>>>>>> applications?
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> So far it has only only reboot. after I load Chrome.
>>>>>>>>>>> And it doesn't
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> happen all the time  usually it will load the Chrome
>>>>>>>>>>> and it will
>>>>>>>>>>> >> reboot
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> then open it again and then it will be fine.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > Chrome is notoriously resource intensive. Maybe give
>>>>>>>>>>> Chromium or
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Firefox
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > a try.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > But based on that answer I'm leaning towards a fan
>>>>>>>>>>> failure first. As
>>>>>>>>>>> >> you
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > said you are currently in Miami, so when you get back
>>>>>>>>>>> definitely check
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> that.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > Could also be simple dust accumulation, something a can
>>>>>>>>>>> of air can
>>>>>>>>>>> >> fix.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > That is something that is obvious to see when you look.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > There are a few other possible things to check, but lets
>>>>>>>>>>> rule out the
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > simple stuff first before we dive deeper.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > -Matt
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
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