Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On 2008-09-20, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:25:02 -0400, Stefan Patric <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Basically, I think the problem is Opera and not your system, X server or

While opera is very sensetive to file system corruption, how could a user
application force the system to reboot?

Good question.

I believe it is a hardware problem. I would expect a disk or ram failure
to cause a segfault, or freeze. Rebooting when the cpu is put under load
sounds like either a heat problem, or a power supply problem, with the
power supply seeming most likely, to me, as I would expect a heat problem
to shut the system down, rather then reboot it.

Well, I'm living in an old apartment with electrical wiring that
probably dates back to just after the war (Crimean); I blew a fuse on
the mains box a couple of months back, the one controlling the circuit
that supplies the juice for the room with my computer in it, and when my
wife went to buy another one to replace the one that had blown, the hardware
guy said she was lucky he had one in stock because they didn't make these
kind of fuses anymore).

I'm wondering whether the problem isn't my computer, but my apartment.

This could get expensive.

;-)
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