system halted abnormally?

[Trevor Cordes]

Can someone help me figure out why the following shows up in my "last" history
(below)? What are the "system halted abnormally" entries? At the listed
times, my system was running fine and nothing was halted or shutdown! I can't
seem to figure out what could be causing it!

Thanks!

trevor Jan 25 21:16 - 12:17 (15:00)
reboot ~ Jan 25 21:15
root lft0 Jan 25 20:03 - 21:15 (01:11)
LOGIN lft0 Jan 25 20:03 - 20:03 (00:00)
derek tty1 Jan 25 16:09 - 19:52 (03:42)
trevor Jan 25 13:47 - System halted
abnormally. (07:28)
reboot ~ Jan 25 13:46
root lft0 Jan 24 22:25 - 13:45 (15:20)
LOGIN lft0 Jan 24 22:25 - 22:25 (00:00)
trevor tty1 Jan 24 20:15 - System halted
abnormally. (17:30)
derek tty1 Jan 24 19:39 - 20:07 (00:28)
derek tty1 Jan 24 16:37 - 17:46 (01:09)
derek tty1 Jan 24 14:39 - 15:44 (01:05)
derek tty1 Jan 24 14:36 - 14:39 (00:02)
derek tty1 Jan 24 14:35 - 14:36 (00:01)
derek tty1 Jan 24 14:19 - 14:35 (00:15)
trevor Jan 24 14:09 - System halted
abnormally. (23:36)
reboot ~ Jan 24 14:08
root lft0 Jan 23 22:10 - 14:07 (15:57)
LOGIN lft0 Jan 23 22:10 - 22:10 (00:00)
trevor tty1 Jan 23 09:28 - 14:40 (05:12)

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[Ron Wigmore]

Trevor Cordes (Trevor...@umanitoba.ca) wrote:
: Can someone help me figure out why the following shows up in my "last" history

: (below)? What are the "system halted abnormally" entries? At the listed
: times, my system was running fine and nothing was halted or shutdown! I can't
: seem to figure out what could be causing it!

: reboot ~ Jan 25 21:15

: root lft0 Jan 25 20:03 - 21:15 (01:11)

: derek tty1 Jan 25 16:09 - 19:52 (03:42)

: trevor Jan 25 13:47 - System halted
: abnormally. (07:28)
: reboot ~ Jan 25 13:46

This simply means that user "trevor" was logged in when the system was
rebooted at 21:15. Add 7:28 to 13:47 and you will get 21:15. There is
no problem here, although the message is a little confusing. Hmpf, must
be a message being produced on a UNIX system! :-)

Ron,,,