On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 20:09 -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > On 02/02/2013 03:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > 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. > > Nothing: Yeah, that doesn't look like thermal cutoff. > I may need to re-install. Is there a way to clone my F17 installation > before I run fedup? No magic Fedora way, no. > It would be nice to have a fedup mode that installs > to a new partition, based on settings and packages in the currently > running one. That's fundamentally not how fedup works at all, so it's unlikely to happen. > Given existing F18 problems, I'm a bit nervous about running > fedup in place and thus risking my working F17 installation. I guess > I could back up my disk with clonezilla (for example), but that's a pain. Unfortunately that's pretty much what you need to do: you need a backup. -- 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
