Dell Inspiron 1525 Auto Reboots

[rokytnji]

You might want to look in dmesg maybe for a clue as to the reboots.

I am on my Slackware netbook so just a example of what and where I am talking about.

Code:

harry[~]$ cd /var
harry[var]$ ls
adm    db     lib   log   man  rwho      spool  tmp
cache  empty  lock  mail  run  slapt-get  state
harry[var]$ cd log
harry[log]$ ls
ConsoleKit    cups     lastlog   pm-powersave.log  samba     spooler
Xorg.0.log    debug     maillog   pm-suspend.log    scripts   syslog
Xorg.0.log.old    dmesg     messages  removed_packages  secure    wicd
btmp        faillog  nfsd       removed_scripts   setup     wtmp
cron        gdm     packages  sa             sourcery

Then to read

Code:

harry[log]$ sudo cat dmesg
Password:
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
<snip>
[   11.369035] XFS (sda3): Mounting Filesystem
[   11.522279] XFS (sda3): Ending clean mount

There is a lot of stuff one can check in /var/log for weird situations like a reboot loop situation.
HTH