Viewing /dev/by-label shuts down computer!

[geo_c]

I'm kind of afraid to try it again, but it seems when using a file manager, in my case Xfe and once Rox, opening /dev/disk/by-label and viewing the contents caused my computer to completey shut off, basically like a power drop. The first time I did it I thought it was unplugged and the battery died.

I'm running vanilladpup-9.2.17 from a usb drive.

It happened twice. The first time I thought maybe I clicked on the link in /dev/disk/by-label to the home drive, but the second time I'm positive that I was simply viewing the contents of /dev/disk/by-label.

Anyone know what might be happening here?

I suppose it's possible it's some kind of conincidence, and there's some other factor at play. It was on the same machine. I could try it on another machine and see if it happens again.

[April]

I'm on xenialpup64-7..5 and when I click on the device names direct I get a message ,don't know how to open that unless its the hard drive or a plugged in usb stick..

[geo_c]

I'm on xenialpup64-7..5 and when I click on the device names direct I get a message ,don't know how to open that unless its the hard drive or a plugged in usb stick..

The first time I did click on the device symlink itself, but the second time no. I was in vanilladpup, and I installed Xfce, so the drives were not showing up, I went to /dev to see if they were there, which they were. I don't really want to keep testing it, since I'm using usb install and those devices are my internal hard drives. Don't want to mess around with them.