CPU Temperature Indicator

[Lawrence Graves]

On 02/02/2013 04:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 12:39 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
>> On 02/02/2013 12:24 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
>>> There is an error with the cpu temperature indicator in Fedora 18. Is
>>> anyone or has anyone experienced this problem and if so please give some
>>> advice on how to fix. Thanks
>> My laptop keeps shutting down, so I haven't been able to
>> run F18 for more than a short while at a time.  My guess
>> is either overheating or a misread temperature indicator.
> 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.
I am not having trouble with a laptop. Someone responded to my post 
thinking I was talking about my laptop and I was talking about my 
desktop. My post has to do with cpu temperature indicator not loading 
and if it loads it freezes my PC and when I reboot it may load and then 
says error.
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