On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:12:07PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, I have a mildly-reproducible spontaneous reboot on my laptop.
> Is there anything useful to do to debug this?
> 
> I can crash reliably by trying to open a specific RTF file in Abiword.
> Unfortunately, the file is under an NDA, so I can't distribute it.  If I
> open the file, my laptop makes an odd noise, and then reboots.

Can you point Abiword at a remote X server and see if the laptop prints
anything out on the text console?  (or doesn't reboot, etc)
You might try a serial console also, to capture any thing.

-Andrew