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Feb 2, 2011

Sometimes, when I leave my Ubuntu's X Server on, I'll come back after several minutes and see that my machine is powered off. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think it's because of hardware failure rather than my lack of measurement.

It used to power off in terminal mode (CTRL+ALT+F1) but then I added this to ~/.bashrc and it went away:

Code:
if [ "${USER}" == "root" ]
then
export TMOUT = 3600
fi

Also, I checked my logs and I see this:

Code:
Feb 2 00:00:09 l1nux AptDaemon: INFO: Quiting due to inactivity
Feb 2 00:00:09 l1nux AptDaemon: INFO: Shutdown was requested

Since it's not a CRITICAL message, but an INFO, it seems like its a planned shutdown.

Does anyone know how I can turn this feature off?

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