strange shutdowns with F7

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:16 AM -0400 6/2/07, Claude Jones wrote:
>I had Scientific Linux running on this box without issues for days - that was
>a fresh install from a couple of weeks back. I'm also running Windows XP on
>this machine, and it seems to be fine
>
>I put F7 on last night and it went without incident. I came down this am, and
>the machine was off. I noticed it doing fsck on boot-up so I figured maybe
>there was a power incident, though I'm on UPS, and my other machine (this
>one) was still up which is on the same UPS. I booted back into F7 - it was up
>and running and I went back to the this machine (I'm on a KVM) - a few
>minutes later, the F7 machine went dead - you know the sound a sort
>of 'klunk' and then silence. I wasn't on the machine either time. Anyone else
>seeing this?

(No UPS here.)  Isolate the problem.  Either the machine shut itself down
or the UPS shut it down, either directly or by command.  If it was the
machine itself or by command there may be an entry in the logs.  Also try
it without the UPS serial/USB connection, and then without the UPS at all.
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