Hi, all,
Ever since I've upgraded to jaunty, I've noticed an occasional but serious problem.
Sometimes, Ubuntu will spontaneously shut itself down with no warning of any kind. I am not talking about a sudden loss of power. Ubuntu will switch to its normal shutdown screen, shut itself off normally, and power the system down. The problem is that it does this without me telling it to, and without any warning or countdown!
Thus far, this problem has occurred only when I am using one of two programs: either gThumb or the game Anagramarama. One of these two programs has always been open and in the active window when these unexpected shutdowns occur. It seems like the computer will turn itself off about 50% of the time when I try to use gThumb, and every time I try to play Anagramarama. The shutdown doesn't happen immediately -- usually, the program in question has been open for about 20 minutes when the computer shuts down.
Has anyone else seen this or a similar problem? Does anyone have any idea what could be happening? Is there a system log of some sort that I could check to see how the shutdown command was given?
Thanks, everyone.
Bookmarks