Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Erk. Firefox is sure slow. And gmail on FF is a habit I need to give up. Or get a more recent machine. > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Matt M wrote: >> Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat issues, especially on >> laptops. Does it

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Matt M wrote: > Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat issues, especially on > laptops. Does it power right back on and stay on for a long time? If not I > would suspect heat. If it does stay on, it may be a power management bug, a > bad power source or po

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-22 Thread trondd
Joel Rees wrote: > all at the time. All browser stuff. I was thinking less about load and > more about firefox dying and taking the system with it. Firefox 26.0 > from the openbsd 5.5 packages. Google even keeps telling me the > browser is no longer supported by them. Need to upgrade to obsd 5.6

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:42 PM, trondd wrote: > Check 'sysctl hw.sensors' and see if you have some temp sensors in > there and what they're telling you. > > Tim. Now that you mention it, yeah, that command does tell the temperature and such. Right now: hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=38.50 degC (zon

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread trondd
Check 'sysctl hw.sensors' and see if you have some temp sensors in there and what they're telling you. Tim.

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread Matt M
Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat issues, especially on laptops. Does it power right back on and stay on for a long time? If not I would suspect heat. If it does stay on, it may be a power management bug, a bad power source or possibly a failing power supply in the machine. If it won'

My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread Joel Rees
I'm looking under /var/log, but not seeing any logfiles to give me any clues. What information should I post? I have /var/log/messages from the moment of the crash, but it's about 36K. dmesg: --- OpenBSD 5.5-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sat Dec 13 14:38:02 JST 2014 r...@ob.reiisi.homedns.