On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:09:54AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:27:21PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The problem with jdk-1.5, eclipse and openoffice-2 it happened with two > > > other machines ( 1 acer notebook and other is a dell desktop ). > > > It considers that Jdk-1.5 is in alpha stage. > > > > No, userland applications do not cause spontaneous reboots unless > > there is a deeper underlying problem. > > Agreed - although this may be a different problem. > > For the 6.0 machine which is freezing, the short hardware description you > posted is insufficient. You need to post the full output of 'dmesg' so > people here can see exactly what hardware you have. (Preferably from booting > in verbose mode) > > There is also one simple thing which is worth trying: boot with ACPI > disabled. I suffered random reboots with early 5.x on my home machine, which > went away when ACPI was disabled (although later 5.x series were fine). It's > worth a try. If it works, then you can provide help to improve the ACPI > code. Good advice. It's also worth pointing out that many older machines have buggy ACPI implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed with a BIOS update from the vendor. Kris
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