On Tue, 07 Feb 2012, Dirk Stallmann wrote: > my KDE desktop crashed and restarted. I have found the following > kernel messages: > > [ 47.141169] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 1) > [ 47.141173] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 1) > [ 47.141175] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 1) > [ 47.141177] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 1) > [ 47.152168] CPU1: Package power limit normal > [ 47.152171] CPU3: Package power limit normal > [ 47.152173] CPU2: Package power limit normal > [ 47.152175] CPU0: Package power limit normal Your thinkpad is overheating. > [ 299.418882] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged And something is reporting that it is having serious trouble. You need to run something that can read machine check errors to try to read the log. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception > [ 3096.687737] CPU3: Package power limit normal > [ 3495.087937] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or > keyboard event received > [ 3495.087941] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 > [ 3495.087943] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this > event happened to ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [ 3495.088362] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed The above is just a red herring, and you can ignore it. > using a KDE 4.7.2 desktop on a Thinkpad T420. The examination of > older logs shows that this type of message appears quite often. Well, I suggest you find a way to get that box to stop overheating, it will end up frying for good. Trying the latest kernel 3.0 or 3.2 is likely to help. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel