Re: [LUG] tracking a powerdown

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:

> On 24/04/2020 10:10, Tom via list wrote:
> > Last night my laptop stopped dead - blank screen no response to
> > anything. I powered it off and back on again and set a full backup
> > running. This morning I started checking the logs but no indication of
> > what happened. Nothing!
> >
> > Any clues as to how and try and track this down.
> >
> > Tom te tom te tom
> I'm guessing that your backup logs overwrote your "real" logs and wiped
> the evidence of what happened.

I read Toms message as

  Taook a backup when he next booted the Laptop

and not

  Restoring from a backup

PC stops dead == No logs because a stopped CPU can't write logs. Hardware 
or software problem? Who knows. It happens from time to time on my desktop 
but it's almost always when I'm running Shotwell to import videos from my 
camera, (so now I run that on a laptop and copy the files over) - is there 
some issue with the FUSE filesystem and SATA/SSD writes or... ? Power 
supply, overheating, or ... Who knows.

Gordon

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