Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>
>> I am running NetBSD 1.6ZC from 9/19/2003 on a Dell Inspiron 5000e. If I
>> leave the laptop on overnight or for several hours it seems that it is
>> always powered off when I come back. When I then boot it up, it is
>> apparent that it just shut off because all the filesystems are dirty and
>> fsck must be run. Could this be an issue with NetBSD or is it just a
>> hardware issue? Any ideas? Thank you for your time.
>
> I've had this happen on-and-off over the last couple of months, and just
> now half an hour ago (which reminded me to reply to your message).  I
> think it's only happened once when its been plugged in to the mains.

Huh -- this happened to me yesterday, out of the blue.  It's never
happened before, but all of a sudden, while I was using my Compaq
Armada M700 (with NetBSD 1.6ZC), it just shut off, with no warning.
It was connected to the mains at the time.

-tih
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