Air will occasionally shut down after I have logged in, from power up

My Mac Air, has been awesome.  Lately, it has been sending me a weird message after I power up, then login, it will shut itself down, and make me login again.  It says there was a problem, and my Mac had to shut down, but it doesn't tell me what the problem is.  It has be send a report to Apple, but there hasn't been any information coming back to me about it.
This doesn't happen that often, maybe average once a week.  It is mostly annoying.
Thanks.
Sarah 

Does anybody have any thoughts about why this is happening?

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