Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:31:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Marc J <marcj AT sympatico DOT ca>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin reboots my PC randomly
In-Reply-To: <01f201c4ed61$52bc4fa0$cc01a8c0@p43000>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0412291130230.8337@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
References: <01f201c4ed61$52bc4fa0$cc01a8c0 AT p43000>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Marc J wrote:

> I'm running DLL release version is 1.5.10-3 on Windows 2000 Pro and a 1 yr
> old 3.0 GHz PC.
> Windowing env - /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.exe
>
> After I have the cygwin environment up with windowing started via
> startxwin.sh, and a couple of xterm windows up,
> after a random amount of time (several hours, 2 days...), my PC suddenly
> reboots.
> This only happens when I run cygwin. I run an older version on my laptop
> w/o any problems, I love it.
>
> I have checked FAQs, mailing list archives, etc.
>
> I know this may be difficult to resolve.
> I would like to use it more, so if anyone can provide a clue to what might
> be the cause, it would be appreciated.

Unless you have a cron job that runs "shutdown -r" or "reboot" :-),
Brian's reply pretty much explains it...
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/