Comments on: ToCheck: Why did my system just turn off? http://www.sehofstede.nl/tocheck-why-did-my-system-just-turn-off Personal site of a tech enthusiast Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: qense http://www.sehofstede.nl/tocheck-why-did-my-system-just-turn-off/comment-page-1#comment-3439 qense Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:45:08 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=227#comment-3439 Thank you for your replies! Do you know a program to detect such hardware failures? Thank you for your replies!
Do you know a program to detect such hardware failures?

]]> By: darkrain42 http://www.sehofstede.nl/tocheck-why-did-my-system-just-turn-off/comment-page-1#comment-3435 darkrain42 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:39:48 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=227#comment-3435 Computer powering off randomly is sad (it occasionally happens to me, but usually it's *some* form of power glitch...it's why I ended up buying a UPS). The "Sigfile not found" message is likely unrelated and innocuous (I get them too). They're caused by pam_ecryptfs. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/293434 and http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mhalcrow/ecryptfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=fb5dc42750c745d807921d59d7d99ffda6d857a6 Computer powering off randomly is sad (it occasionally happens to me, but usually it’s *some* form of power glitch…it’s why I ended up buying a UPS).

The “Sigfile not found” message is likely unrelated and innocuous (I get them too). They’re caused by pam_ecryptfs. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/293434 and http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mhalcrow/ecryptfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=fb5dc42750c745d807921d59d7d99ffda6d857a6

]]> By: raptros-v76 http://www.sehofstede.nl/tocheck-why-did-my-system-just-turn-off/comment-page-1#comment-3432 raptros-v76 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:26:50 +0000 http://www.qense.nl/?p=227#comment-3432 If you mean that it was in fact a sudden loss of power, it could possibly be a hardware issue; maybe the motherboard or power supply or something is failing. It has happened to me. The way you describe it makes me think it is hardware, not software, that caused the failure. If you mean that it was in fact a sudden loss of power, it could possibly be a hardware issue; maybe the motherboard or power supply or something is failing. It has happened to me. The way you describe it makes me think it is hardware, not software, that caused the failure.

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