On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:39:36PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> 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.

Interesting. I am starting to think this is very definitely related to
1.6ZC. In my reply to Simon, I noted the possible connection with X.
Were you running X or console when it shut off?

Bryan