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Ubuntu also has an auto-update feature for certain updates. Did you
enable it when you installed the system?
- - Scott
Ron Youvan wrote:
>> My Ubuntu 9.04 box just rebooted all by itself. There had not been a
>> power interruption and if there had been I have a UPS. What's up with
>> that, are we going Great Satan auto-update?
>
>> I *never* reboot.
>
> In the reverse order, why do you never reboot?
> Are you out to enrich the power company?
>
> One possibility it rebooted and a reason to occasionally (regularly)
> reboot is loss of data integrity (in RAM) from cosmic radiation. Unless
> your box uses "error detecting and correcting" RAM cosmic radiation
> collisions cause RAM bits to be altered one little bit here and later a
> bit there.
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