[AuckLUG] POWER OUTAGES OVER NIGHT

[Justin Cook]

You can begin by eliminating your ISP. They're not rebooting your 
computers or messing with your fusebox.

You're probably looking at a combination of problems.


Alan Nicholson wrote:
> Not strictly a Linux problem but I wonder if anyone else has been having 
> similar problems.
>
> Every morning, although I have Kmail (Under OpenSues 10.2) running it seems to 
> have locked up and won't download my emails. I have to close Kmail, wait a 
> few minutes and then open it again,log on and all my mail downloads.
>
> Figured it was a bug in Kmail or OpenSuse and have not got around to having a 
> look on the net to see if it is listed. Not very Linux savvy but trying to 
> improve
>
> However I now find that my wife who has a dual boot machine running Windoze 
> and Kubuntu has a similar problem. She prefers to run Windoze but the machine 
> is set to boot into Kubuntu on startup - she selects Windoze manually. Every 
> morning lately she has been complaining that the machine has the Kubuntu 
> logon screen showing and she has to restart her machine to load Windoze.
>
> We are both with Slingshot as our ISP
>
> This seems to indicate that both machines are shutting down over night for 
> some reason - course a may be totally wrong there, However if this is the 
> case why is my machine still running Kmail as the open app - but seems to be 
> logged off while hers appears to have completely rebooted.
>
> No point in me ringing Slingshot yet as, as soon as they hear "Linux" they 
> tune out!
>
> Any suggestions on how I can pinpoint the problem so that I can try to sort 
> it.
>
> Oh...and I am quite new to Linux so I'd appreciate it if it could be in 
> language a relatively new Windoze convert can undertand.
>
> Alan
>
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