[SLE] Problem with computer rebooting at random intervals...

From: Clayton (smaug42_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/22/05

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:01:23 +0200
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    I'm having a problem with my computer here at work, and thought maybe
    someone here might have some insight or idea what is going on.

    I've got SuSE9.2 installed. System config is a P3 1GHZ with 1GB RAM
    and a 40GB HD partitioned into a 1GB swap and 2 ~20GB Reiser
    partitions. Video is ATI Radeon 7000 configured (aka a hacked
    Xorg.conf) to use dual head.

    The computer works fine with no errors, but at random intervals
    ranging from a couple hours to a week or more it will reboot. No
    warnings... it's as if someone pulled the power cord out.

    My messages log has these entries immediately prior to the system rebooting:

    ---------------------------
    Apr 22 14:59:01 develop /usr/sbin/cron[31995]: (root) CMD ( rm -f
    /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
    Apr 22 15:11:20 develop -- MARK --
    Apr 22 15:31:20 develop -- MARK --
    Apr 22 15:35:39 develop syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
    ---------------------------

    I cannot find any warnings or errors anywhere to indicate why I'm
    getting the reboots.

    I'm thinking maybe a hardware problem, but cannot find any indication
    of what it might be. I've ran memtest and other hardware tests
    overnight or over a weekend, but all tests came up with perfect
    passes.

    The only thing I can think of is maybe a corruption in my swap partition?

    Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Is there somewhere I can look
    in the OS to maybe get a hint as to what is going on? Or maybe a test
    I havent thought of? A log file I could look at?

    Clayton 

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