Check /var/log/acpid (or whereever acpid logs for you) and see if you
got a power button message about then.  I had this problem on a machine
at work and I've had to disable the power button in acpi.

Jim Scott wrote:
> My Fedora 8 system (x86_64, kernel 2.6.23.9-85) started to
> spontaneously reboot this week. From what I've read, it's most likely
> a motherboard or power supply failure. Is there anything I can do with
> Fedora to help troubleshoot this?
>
> /var/log/messages doesn't seem to tell me anything useful. The last
> reboot came around 9:20.
>
> Jan  6 08:50:44 MainPC yum: Updated: mythtv-setup - 0.20.2-170.fc8.x86_64
> Jan  6 08:55:37 MainPC ntpd[2154]: synchronized to 216.14.98.234
> <http://216.14.98.234>, stratum 2
> Jan  6 09:20:23 MainPC rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="1.19.11" x-pid="2015"][x-configInfo udpReception="No"
> udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart
> Jan  6 09:20:23 MainPC kernel: rklogd 1.19.11, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
>
> Is there anything I can do to enable more logging of this issue?
> Here's my rsyslog.conf:
>
> # Log all kernel messages to the console.
> # Logging much else clutters up the screen.
> #kern.*                                                 /dev/console
>
> # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
> # Don't log private authentication messages!
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages
>
> # The authpriv file has restricted access.
> authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure
>
> # Log all the mail messages in one place.
> mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog
>
>
> # Log cron stuff
> cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron
>
> # Everybody gets emergency messages
> *.emerg                                                 *
>
> # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
> uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler
>
> # Save boot messages also to boot.log
> local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log
>
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