About every seven days or so, my computer restarts itself. I typically leave it on 24/7 and just shut off my monitor when not in the house or when sleeping, but at least three times I've woken up and the computer has been sitting at my login screen, happily rebooted.
Here are some entries from my /var/log/messages. As you can see, it doesn't really turn up any answers (as far as I can tell).
Nov 11 03:39:21 auron su(pam_unix)[25678]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 03:40:52 auron su(pam_unix)[23513]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 03:40:53 auron su(pam_unix)[21187]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
I went to bed around 3:40 and then at 7:10, unexpectedly, the system restart itself. Every time it happens, it looks like this...no error messages or anything out of the ordinary before the restart.
Of course I can only speculate as to the problem, but I'm thinking it has something to do with either my ATI drivers I installed or my wireless card drivers I slapped into the kernel. I have another almost identical computer running a server-oriented setup (this one is a desktop) and it has an uptime of about 20 days right now, no restart problems.
Should I be checking another log file to get more info? Does anyone have any experience with an apparently perfectly healthy machine randomly rebooting? This system is about two months old, it's a Pentium 4 running Redhat 9. Thanks for the help.
Here are some entries from my /var/log/messages. As you can see, it doesn't really turn up any answers (as far as I can tell).
Nov 11 03:39:21 auron su(pam_unix)[25678]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 03:40:52 auron su(pam_unix)[23513]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 03:40:53 auron su(pam_unix)[21187]: session closed for user root
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 11 07:10:36 auron kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
I went to bed around 3:40 and then at 7:10, unexpectedly, the system restart itself. Every time it happens, it looks like this...no error messages or anything out of the ordinary before the restart.
Of course I can only speculate as to the problem, but I'm thinking it has something to do with either my ATI drivers I installed or my wireless card drivers I slapped into the kernel. I have another almost identical computer running a server-oriented setup (this one is a desktop) and it has an uptime of about 20 days right now, no restart problems.
Should I be checking another log file to get more info? Does anyone have any experience with an apparently perfectly healthy machine randomly rebooting? This system is about two months old, it's a Pentium 4 running Redhat 9. Thanks for the help.
