On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 16:42 -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote: > On 02/02/2013 04:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 12:39 -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > >> On 02/02/2013 12:24 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >>> There is an error with the cpu temperature indicator in Fedora 18. Is > >>> anyone or has anyone experienced this problem and if so please give some > >>> advice on how to fix. Thanks > >> My laptop keeps shutting down, so I haven't been able to > >> run F18 for more than a short while at a time. My guess > >> is either overheating or a misread temperature indicator. > > The OS is not involved in over-temp shutdown logic. It happens at the > > ACPI level. The firmware lets the kernel know, so you can at least see a > > message in your /var/log/messages to let you know that you hit the > > thermal cutoff, but the logic to trigger the shutdown is in the > > firmware, not in the OS. You should be able to tell > > from /var/log/messages if you're hitting thermal cutoff, just look for a > > message about critical temperature threshold exceeded (or something > > roughly like that) around the time of the shutdown. > I am not having trouble with a laptop. Someone responded to my post > thinking I was talking about my laptop and I was talking about my > desktop. I was replying to Per, not to you. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
