Re: Problem with thermal control: ACPI: Critical trip point - Critical temperature reached - shutting down.

Robert Hancock
2008-12-21T18:08:58Z

Alessandro Bono wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 00:06 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Are the fan(s) running? What does /proc/acpi/fan/*/* show?
>
> yes fans are running and on load system become noisy

..
> and on full load
>
>
> sandro@champagne:~$ acpi -V
> Battery 0: Full, 96%
> AC Adapter 0: on-line
> Thermal 0: ok, 101.0 degrees C
> Thermal 1: ok, 85.0 degrees C
> Thermal 2: ok, 100.0 degrees C
> Thermal 3: ok, 30.1 degrees C
> Thermal 4: ok, 65.0 degrees C
> Thermal 5: ok, 79.0 degrees C
> Cooling 0: LCD 0 of 10
> Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
> Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
> Cooling 3: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 4: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 5: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 6: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 7: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 8: Fan 0 of 1
> Cooling 9: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 10: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 11: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 12: Fan 1 of 1
> Cooling 13: Fan 1 of 1
> sandro@champagne:~$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: active[0]
> temperature: 85 C
> critical (S5): 256 C
> passive: 100 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=300 devices=CPU0 CPU1
> active[0]: 85 C: devices=C387
> active[1]: 65 C: devices=C388
> active[2]: 60 C: devices=C389
> active[3]: 50 C: devices=C38A
> active[4]: 35 C: devices=C38B
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: ok
> temperature: 101 C
> critical (S5): 105 C
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: active[1]
> temperature: 79 C
> critical (S5): 105 C
> active[0]: 100 C: devices=C36F
> active[1]: 70 C: devices=C36A
> active[2]: 60 C: devices=C36B
> active[3]: 55 C: devices=C36C
> active[4]: 45 C: devices=C36D
> active[5]: 35 C: devices=C36E
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: ok
> temperature: 65 C
> critical (S5): 105 C
> passive: 95 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=300 devices=CPU0 CPU1
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: ok
> temperature: 30 C
> critical (S5): 105 C
> passive: 60 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=300 devices=CPU0 CPU1
> <setting not supported>
> <polling disabled>
> state: ok
> temperature: 100 C
> critical (S5): 110 C
> sandro@champagne:~$ cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/*
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on
> status: off
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on
> status: on

Looks like the fan entries are being commanded pretty much full out..
(I'm sure those don't all correspond to physical fans, but likely
different fan speeds.) Are you sure there's not a hardware problem (one
or more fans not working, vents/heatsink clogged with dust)? Your system
seems to be running very hot.