Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 24 October 2009, Pastor JW wrote:
> I have been trying to find a way to display my cpu temp in the bottom
>  panel  like my KDE3 does in my KDE4 install but so far no luck.  According
>  to the fan speed KDE4 runs warmer than KDE3 so I want to keep track of it
>  no matter window I am working in.  KDE3's way is very nice.  Of course I
>  am very fond of KDE3 anyway
> 


What version of kubuntu are you running?    I think there may be a bug in the 
latest kernels....  I too am having temp problems on one machine, and 
actually, it's not overheating, but the kernel thinks it is and spits out 
about 5 msgs per second and eventually  the root drive fills up.