Sudden Shutdown

English Install/Boot/Login
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Just reinstalled Opensuse 11.4 and after about 20-30 mins the screen goes black and shuts down

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On 07/30/2011 12:56 PM, Soad2 wrote:
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> Just reinstalled Opensuse 11.4 and after about 20-30 mins the screen
> goes black and shuts down

the whole machine shuts down, or just the screen?

what kind of hardware you using?

could it be a high CPU temperature (lots of heat around the earth now)?

does it do this if you are using the keyboard/mouse or only if you are not?

are you finding any hints in /var/log/messages?

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the heat is OK and I have no messages

The hard drive will start whirring and then the screen goes blank and I have to reset the computer, I am dual booting with XP and that is OK

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On 08/06/2011 09:16 AM, Soad2 wrote:
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> the heat is OK and I have no messages
>
> The hard drive will start whirring and then the screen goes blank and I
> have to reset the computer, I am dual booting with XP and that is OK

Actually, XP was/is never OK, but I will get off my soapbox.

This sounds like a screen saver gone screwy. If you use KDE, select “Start” =>
Configure Desktop => Display and Monitor and turn off the screen saver. I don’t
use Gnome, but if you do, there will be a similar setting.

One other thing, use CTRL-ALT-F10 to switch to the logging console and see what
messages occur there. There are many situations where messages do not get
written to the logs.

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Thanks

I have switched off the screensaver will see if its does it now, when switched to Ctrl,Alt,F10 how do I exit from this

Thanks again

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On 08/07/2011 02:26 AM, Soad2 wrote:
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> Thanks
>
> I have switched off the screensaver will see if its does it now, when
> switched to Ctrl,Alt,F10 how do I exit from this

CTRL-ALT-F7 is the GUI. There are command-line terminals at F1 - F6.

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It still happens the disc starts spinning and a black screen lock-up, XP runs all day so it must be 11.4 error

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I recommend you make certain you do not have any ‘power management’ settings tuned to cause this inadvertently.