My program running in fc26 needs to run continuously throughout the school year. The computer currently shuts itself down unpredictably, which forces a very complicated reboot. (There are about 24 students in the class, each with a logitech keyboard printing to a single line on a common display. Rebooting and linking each keyboard to the student’s own line is time consuming-each keyboard has to be individually checked.)
For what it’s worth, the program is available on line. Google desk-net.net
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@ilikelinux this isn’t quite spam (not yet at least)—they’re using Fedora for computers in classrooms. OLPC is a non-profit initiative:
They’re doing something similar but with one laptop per classroom instead where each child can use a keyboard to write to a shared computer. So, we should let them expand on the issue before we mark it as spam.
@juanslayton welcome to the forum. Fedora 26 is unfortunately not supported any more and is such an old release that even providing help about it is difficult. The current releases are F40/F41.
Is there a chance you could use a supported release instead? The system powering off could be because of a number of issues but we’ll need more information (logs etc.) to be able to help.
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Hardware issues included.
Since it is running Fedora 26 I suspect that it is also an old device. Maybe dust on the fans?
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Yeh, my first thought would be overheating—processors hitting their critical temperature will cause systems to turn off immediately.
logs around the shutdown time can shed some light…
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There’s enough spam out there for this to be a plausible concern. Perhaps a little more information will allay this concern. This project started many years ago when I was a full time teacher in the El Monte City School District. The original installation was written in 6510 machine code to run on a Commodore 64. The keyboards were all hardwired, and had to be soldered to a large pc board which I etched and connected to keyboard blanks. This took a long summer of work, but the result was very reliable performance.
Since then there has been a lot of development, and the current edition is very different from what has gone before. We are in fact dependent on the Logitech unified programing and all our keyboards are Logitech K360. I am 83 years old and long since retired, but I volunteer at Durfee School in El Monte on a daily basis because I think this project is useful enough to pursue. (Also because 2nd and 3rd graders are fun to work with.) I work in 9 classrooms with over 200 students every day. This particular computer is the only one that does this trick of shutting itself off. It is a Dell Inspiron; I don’t find anything to tell me the date of manufacture. My program is really very simple; the old versions generally work well.
The Dell machine, when it works well, which is most of the time, runs surprisingly cool, so I don’t think heat is the problem. The district allows, but doesn’t support this problem, so our 9 classrooms are all running with legacy machines. But this is the only one that turns itself off. For the time being, I have resorted to a different computer for that class, but it has only vga output, and I have a proliferation of wiring to feed our display, which only has hdmi input.
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FranciscoD,
I’m thinking this is my best shot and am in the process of re-installing. Other posts regarding automatic scheduling of turnoffs and reboots, suggest that current distros will facilitate long term operation. It will take weeks of operation before I can be sure…
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