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Re: cygwin reboots my PC randomly
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Marc J <marcj at sympatico dot ca>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:31:44 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: cygwin reboots my PC randomly
- References: <01f201c4ed61$52bc4fa0$cc01a8c0@p43000>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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