Laptop automatically reboots multiple times (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 17:09 +0530, Jatin wrote: 
> On Sunday 02 May 2010 04:42 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:18 +0530, Jatin wrote:
> >    
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I just installed ubuntu 10.04 yesterday and everything was working fine.
> >> All hardwares recognised correctly and everything working fine. I later
> >> installed two apps namely k3b and VLC media player. I was watching a
> >> movie on my laptop using VLC reading from a DVD and my laptop rebooted
> >> automatically. This happened 5 times yesterday. Upon every re-start it
> >> was working fine for 15 mins then again it rebooted.
> >>
> >> Can some one tell me what can the issue be ?
> >>
> >> Also one more thing i noted is that my laptop was in a very hot state ,
> >> could this have led to its reboot ?
> >>      
> >
> > Yes it could be this.
> >
> >
> > When you say it rebooted, it did a complete reboot, or only the user
> > interface (X.Org) restarted?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    
> Yes , it did a complete reboot.


Is it a new laptop?



1. Install the packages lm-sensors, sensors-applet.


When asked "Should the hddtemp daemon be started at boot?", enable it.


2. Reboot and add the Hardware Sensors Monitor applet to a panel
(preferably the low one).


Right-click on it and configure it, adding the hard disks. 


In General options choose "label with value".


This will help you find out if you have a temperature problem.




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