> Remy Blank wrote: > my laptop powers off by itself after a few > hours of doing nothing. I first thought that it was a hardware issue, > but it just switched off before my eyes a few minutes ago: the screen > went blank, and I could see the caps lock and scroll lock LEDs blink for > ~30 seconds, before the laptop powered off. This seems to be a strong > hint at a kernel panic. > > Unfortunately, as I was in X, I didn't get to see the panic, and it > wasn't logged either. Does anyone know how to get the kernel panic > message in such a case? I have enabled remote logging with syslog-ng, > but I suspect that this won't be enough. I have found kdump, but setting > it up seems to be quite tricky. > > -- Remy
Turn off all power management software. My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up crashing it.
