unexpected restart of computer

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Mon May 4 22:34:48 UTC 2009


Wade Smart wrote:
> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 May 2009 09:23:39 -0500
>> Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 20090503 0920 GMT-5
>>>
>>> In the past 24 hours, 3 times now my computer has rebooted.
>>> Well, thats not entirely accurate...
>>>
>>> Just 2 minutes ago I was reading a article on a web site, I moved my 
>>> cursor up and to the left to back out of that page and my screen 
>>> instantly turned black. It takes between 5 and 10 seconds and then
>>> the login screen pops up. So the computer hardware isn't rebooting,
>>> only the OS.

> gdm[22924]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - 
> Restarting :0
> 


20090504 1734 GMT-5

After a little searching Im noticing people had this after an update of 
Firefox. I just had a update of firefox and each time this happened 
firefox was running.

Wade
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