[Novalug] dmesg showing vesafb / drive errors at bottom

[Ken Kauffman]

MICROSOFT NOVELL SUSE LINUX 10.2!!! bahahahahaha......  <had to say it 
again, grin>

Ok ok.... where to start....

    * acpid is not needed with newer 2.6 kernels.  The kernel handles
      ACPI events with needing the acpid.
    * acpid should only be tweaked in your BIOS so that it doesn't shut
      down devices that need to stay running (disk, etc).  However, you
      still want the kernel to handle ACPI events for things like
      "poweroff".
    * if acpi is active in BIOS, then disable apm in BIOS
    * apm is not needed unless your BIOS doesn't handle ACPI.  Given
      that, apm is typically needed for "poweroff".
    * Are you still using that 2.5" hard drive with the funky adapter on
      the cable (I recommended you ditch that hookup).  I'm thinking
      that converter is dorking your stability.
    * Double check for any tell tale message in /var/log/messages?
    * Did you see any errors on reboot?
    * Did you see any errors in any other /var/log file? (kernel? daemon?)

It takes a lot to hose a Linux server on the 2.6 kernel.  Typically it's 
a significant hardware or I/O failure.  My gut tells me it's that 
2.5"/converter if you still have it set up.

Ken