[ltp] Unsolicited requests for shut down

[Ricardo Reis]

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On Wed, 16 May 2012, Athanasios Velios wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since February I have a strange problem on my Thinkpad X220 Tablet which =
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> Linux. When there seems to be a lot of activity (e.g. backing up or=20
> compressing files) the OS requests to shut down as if I chose Shut Down f=
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> the menu. This happens with different distributions (I have tried Ubuntu=
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> 11.10 and 12.04 and the current Fedora). I am not sure where to look for=
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> possible errors. The logs do not show something obvious, but I may not be=
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> looking at the right place.
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> Any ideas?

overheat? what is reported by sensors, for instance? you can put a script=
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running in the background, with watch, for instance, to dump sensors to a=
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file every 1 min. when you reboot you can inspect and see what were the=20
temps when you were shutdown.

from the top of my mind that is what your problem makes me think off

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