Re: System restarts spontaneously

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:14:53 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:

Running Mandriva 2007, having recently installed broadband (and also the
Gramps genealogy program (which neede python etc. modules)), I am
experiencing occasional spontaneous reboots.

Just now, I had only just booted up and was in Firefox when the mouse
cursor froze and the PC then rebooted itself.

When then rebooting the Mandriva boot info showed:

"/dev/hdb7 Recovering journal
udevd-event [1464]: rename_netif: error changing netif name sit0 to:
Invalid argument"

(/dev/hdb7 is /home. Got 61GB free)

then various other lines, after which the bootup continued normally and
Mandriva is performing OK.

Suspecting a flaky drive, I ran the Maxtor diagnostic CD, which
pronounced the drive in excellent health...

Anyone any ideas as to how to proceed, please?


Have you tried swapping out the power supply?
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