[CentOS] netbook screen suddenly goes black

Mon Jun 20 20:40:02 UTC 2016
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:13:35PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, Александр Кириллов wrote:
> >> > > >Can anyone of you provide further hints on what I should be looking
> >> > > >for or at?
> >> > >
> >> > > Is it trying to hibernate?
> >> >
> >> > gosh, I hope not! I was in the middle of using it, playing solitaire
> >> > and moving the mouse around a lot.
> >> >
> >> I recently had the opposite problem.  I'd comback to a laptop
> >> I knew I had turned off and it was up and running.
> >>
> >> Turns out the bios had a setting to automatically power up
> >> at 1:30 AM.  Perhaps your bios has a "shut down at ..."
> >> setting?
> >>
> >> jl
> >
> > thanks for the suggestion!
> >
> > but I kinda doubt that's it, this has been highly rare, and doesn't do it
> > when
> > e.g. I'm at work and leave it on all day.
> >
> 
> Hooold on thar! I came into this thread really late (like, today). You're
> saying it's fine at work, but not at home?
> 

No. I'm saying it's only happened once since I installed C7, not long
after it was released. While I haven't kept records of dates and times,
I don't think it was at any specific time.

I saw it 2 or 3 times previously, probably some Fedora version,... my
tired old brain won't divulge that info right now.

It seems reasonable that it's some kind of hardware issue but I don't
see anything in the logs I've thought to check.

I inquired, hoping some of you could suggest other places to look for
info, in retrospect.

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