CPU Temperature Indicator

[Adam Williamson]

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.
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