Server got rebooted itself.

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Hi all,

One of our server got rebooted this Sat itself I did check the logs and could't find a lot. But something related to gconfd.
Feb 7 12:47:36 test gconfd (root-4349): Exiting >> So not very sure why gconfd may cause the reboot???
Feb 7 12:47:37 test gdm[3984]: Restarting computer...
Feb 7 12:47:38 test shutdown[3984]: shutting down for system reboot.

I found some blogs saying that the gconfd creates a folder under /tmp folder with 777 permission but in my case these gconfd-root folder has 700 permission.

Any ideas?

F.
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rhn-support-mflitter's picture Red Hat Guru 1638 points
10 February 2015 4:29 PM

Hello Farrukh,

I'm speculating here, but it looks like the server was shutdown from a gnome menu. Could someone have logged off from the GUI and clicked restart instead of logout?

I'd have a look at the last logins for the time in question and see if anyone terminated a session on :0 at the same time.

It would be exceptionally unusual for GDM to perform this action without user input. last | grep "Feb 7" should give an indication to go on.

Many thanks,
Mark

F. Active Contributor 273 points
11 February 2015 3:35 PM

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for response.

I did run last command with reboot argument. and got output like this.

[root@wordpress ~]# last reboot
reboot system boot 2.6.18-308.13.1. Sat Feb 7 12:48 (3+20:04)

So user looks like a system and is root also considered as a system?

NT Newbie 7 points
22 August 2018 6:31 AM

Hi Everyone,

I am also facing same issue one of my RHEL5.10 Server. could you please suggest to resolve the isse.

SM Guru 3731 points
25 August 2018 10:37 AM

Hi,

It is better you open a new thread with your query and provide all system, issue details, so that community would help you instead posting on a older thread.

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9725 points
25 August 2018 12:15 PM

Hi ! You're still running RHEL 5 ? It's time to make the switch to RHEL 7 ... your issue may be a good reason to start. :)

Regards,
Christian

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