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That darned power-off reset

When I set up my mini-computer, I made a few hardware choices due to my familiarity with the Linux operating system. My x86 boxes had uptimes of hundreds of days. With Raspian Jessie, and Raspbian in general, my uptimes are in days. Sometimes not even that. There are A LOT of bugs in Raspbian. So many that I need to change to something completly different, or something a lot older and more stable. My computer has a key switch for main power to the internal 5 VDC supply. The switch turns off/on the AC feeding the supply. I wired each Raspberry Pi to a power buss for the 5v. I didn't add any switches so that I could power up/down the computer modules seperately. And as long as I don't use the computer, it works just fine that way. I use PI1 for development in writing software since running at 1.25 GHz it's the fastest of the 5. But when something goes wrong, I lose connectivity to the rest, and many times it won't even shut down. Just gives me error messages that in