CPU Temperature Indicator

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 16:42 -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> 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.

I was replying to Per, not to you.
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