Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

[Michael Shiloh]

That's a great story Shachar, thanks for sharing. Hopefully I will remember
this if it ever happens to me.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:

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> On 12/03/2021 14:08, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
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> On 12/03/2021 12:34, borissh1983 at gmail.com wrote:
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> Would it be possible to monitor both dbus messages (system and user) AND
> Xsession errors while you do so ?
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> Yes, that provided some progress. At least I can tell the name of the
> component that triggers the shutdown. The session dbus monitor says:
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> signal time=1615549109.464622 sender=:1.13 -> destination=(null
> destination) serial=832 path=/component/org_kde_powerdevil;
> interface=org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component; member=globalShortcutPressed
>    string "org_kde_powerdevil"
>    string "PowerOff"
>    int64 6630990
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> I'm not 100% sure what that means. It seems that powerdevil thinks that
> someone pressed the power button. More research necessary, but at least
> we're finally getting a log admitting _something_ happened.
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> I've cracked it!!!
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> The problem was that my USB-C docking station was incapable of providing
> enough power to run the computer. It should not have been a problem, as I'm
> guessing the problem was momentary and the computer's battery would have
> also sufficed. It did, however, respond to this situation by sending a
> power-off key (which is why the BIOS did not say anything - it wasn't it
> that initiated the shutdown).
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> I've connected the computer's provided power supply, and the problem is
> now GONE.
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> Thank you, everyone.
>
> Shachar
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