PC just quits after upgrade

i think that prelink is part of open office

Well after it happened again at about the same time today I was starting to think I had a rouge cron wigging out but after trying to restart the computer all the lights started flashing and I had to cut power to make it stop so I took the UPS out of line just incase........we'll see Still doesn't explain prelink maxing the cpu though.
Alvin

http://alk.jerkydirect.com/

Prelink is a maintenance program. read more about it here;
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Well I noticed my cpu maxed and it was prelink again so I killed it and no unexpcted shutdown this time. Tomoro I'll let it run it's corse and see if it shuts down after a few minutes (or shuts down the PC).

Thanks for the link on prelink maybe I can take it out of cron if nothing else.

I found a Linux package for my Cyberpower cps500sl that checks the operational condition. Now if I can find the stupid cord to go from the ups to the pc. I never hooked it up because I figured there was no software for it. It's rated at 500va 275 watts but if the power's on the watt rating shouldn't matter should it? I know it's not a big ups but when the power's on I wouldn't think it'd matter
Alvin

http://alk.jerkydirect.com/

With no UPS inline [and wouldn't you know a thunderstorm kiced the power off for 10 seconde this morning] I wated for prelink to run it's corse at the 12:25 pm cron. After a half hour (maybe less) it shut the pc down. I hope prelink isn't that importent, because I removed it from the daily cron dir and put my ups back in line.
Alvin

http://alk.jerkydirect.com/

OK Maybe it's not prelink. I was ripping a DVD [whitch maxes the CPU] and after 25 minutes beep beep beep and it shut down. I guess my test wasn't run long enough. Soooo as this started when I installed Mepis 6, is there a damond running that monitors the CPU temp and issues a shutdown command if you run too hot too long? This driving me nuts!!! At max CPU I run 136F and it never shut down running SETI@HOME 27/7 last spring. the CPU ran 136F then too.
Thanks again.
Alvin

http://alk.jerkydirect.com/

Well I had a friend tell me to
sudo rmmod thermal
and that would stop my shutdowns. I did and it seems to work even after running the cpu at 100% for 90 Min. Now I'm wondering how to tell thermal to not shut the pc off. There has to be a way to adjust the settings that triggers the shutdown command. BTW looks like thermal replaces lm-sensors.
Alvin
http://alk.jerkydirect.com/

if you want to cook your processor, that's fine.
at least leave the bios enabled to shut down the machine before it cooks.

I take it you have looked inside pc case and checked that the cpu fan is still working if not this may be why your cpu is overheating and shutting down. Even if cpu fan is okay maybe add another fan inside case or if you dont have an extra fan even leave side of case off for awhile to see if extra airflow lets you run computer without problems.If this is okay you will know you need better fans inside case.If this still does not help maybe disconnect hard drive with power off and then switch PC on and leave on if this is okay and not switching off then at least you are narrowing the problem down whether it is hardware or Mepis problem.

John

Nothing to do with Mepis, but during the recent hot weather here
one of my boxes kept crashing and sometimes shutting itself down.

Looked inside the case and saw that everything, especially the
fan/heatsink on the processor, was clogged up with greasy fluff
(although the fans were all still spinning merrily).

After some work with pipecleaners, a toothbrush and a fine nozzle
on a suction cleaner things looked much healthier and, more to the
point, the crashes/shutdowns are no longer occurring.

OK I just found out thermal shuts down the pc based on the BIOS temp level, and that's set TO LOW!!!! Problem fixed.
Alvin

http://alk.jerkydirect.com/