Re: Several problems on a toshiba S3000-X11

Pavel Machek
2002-09-30T02:21:46Z

Hi!

> So the computer shuts down, without warning, while it is not particulary
> hot, with nothing written in the logs, while the user was just using vim
> in a xterm, at irregular times, and it can happen two or three times in
> an afternoon.
>
> That's a major nuisance. By the way, I can confirm that ext3 works very
> nicely at recovering a filesystem.
>
> I have an hypothesis; somehow I think there is something wrong in the
> reading of the temperature. When I read the temperature, there are some
> very unnatural pics; the computer was at 53 degree, then jumps 3 seconds
> at 60 and comes back at 53. I believe that, some time to time, this
> unnatural jump goes over the critical trippoint and the computer shuts
> down in emergency.

Emergency shutdown implemented in kernel calls /sbin/halt or similar. This
must be something else.
Pavel

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