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Gentoo System keeps crashing every 6 hours?

Ok this one kind of puzzles me.

I was installing "wine" last night and since I knew it was going to take a while I closed the lid of the laptop and turned it upside down on the floor. (I always turn the laptop upside down when not using it otherwise might overheat)

When I woke up this morning roughly 8 hours after I went to sleep the machine was turned off.

Using the "last -x | grep shutdown | head -1" it stated that it went down at roughly 6 hours from when I went to sleep.

The program I was installing got finished installing but I never set up an auto-shutdown program or anything of the sort.

If this isn't a problem with linux then its a problem with my bios. If its a problem with my bios I will just have to live with it because my bios is locked.

/var/log/messages says this:

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alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

alexslaptop shutdown[14933]: shutting down for system halt

alexslaptop init: Switching to runlevel: 0

alexslaptop sshd[18178]: Received signal 15; terminating.

alexslaptop acpid: client 12958[0:0] has disconnected

alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: ac_adapter ADP1 00000080 00000000

alexslaptop acpid: exiting

alexslaptop syslog-ng[17672]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;

alexslaptop syslog-ng[17672]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.1.1'

You say "keeps crashing". Has this happened more than one?

You could do a memory check, to make sure that it is working fine, but it looks like it might have something to do with your battery, given that it triggered some event right before shutting down?

The event was not handled, but you should investigate what this event is (it may be that is has switched to battery power for some reason, as things are not being handled correctly?)

Perhaps http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml will lead you in the right direction?

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Originally Posted by Awatto (Post 4031161)

The RAM is fine. I already did a scan on that a couple days back.

As for the battery having issues that is very likely considering the power adapter was kinda... hacked together.

The laptop was given to me and the power adapter was in really bad shape AKA broken. So using two wires and a LOT of electric tape I pieced the whole thing back together safely and it worked.

From a viewing perspective the laptop appears to charge perfectly.

The crash has happened twice so far.

Were both crashes after 6 hours? Or different time-frames.

If the power cable was hacked together, you may have a problem with the power cable intermittently cutting out?

As far as I can see, it looks like

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alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

the batter is kicking in. What is the line just before this?

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Originally Posted by Awatto (Post 4031183)

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alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

the batter is kicking in. What is the line just before this?

hm... I really do need to get another power adapter for it.

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Jul 11 23:57:06 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:57:23 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:57:40 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:57:57 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:58:13 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:58:30 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:58:47 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:59:04 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:59:20 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Jul 11 23:59:37 alexslaptop logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

Upon further investigation it appears like the power was disconnected during most of the night. (Even though it was plugged in) What was strange though is the battery was 100% charged when I woke up this morning.

The power didn't go out last night because all the clocks were at the correct time.

Well hopefully that solves the mystery then.

As for a new power adapter, nonsense! Keep pulling it apart and re-wiring it until it works! :-)