[clug-talk] Spontaneous Shut Down

[bogi]

I think you may have a full / <<root partition or a full /home partition. I 
don't think a faulty psu would result in a graceful shutdown. A psu taking 
the power-good signal away might result in a graceful shutdown, but not in 
case power is really not good :-)
Also a shorted out / stuck  reset button can result in a graceful shutdown.
Knowing your system i would go for the full partition option first.
Cheers
Szemir

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:00:23 Richard Carter wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This morning my desk top PC (amd64, Debian 5.0) began spontaneously
> shutting down.  This happens at various times: part way through booting,
> while in kde, during back up.  I suspect the power supply has failed.  Does
> this sound right?
>
> Robin Carter