Processor/Fan Problem - Weird

[Brian Puccio]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 00:03 +0000, ubuntu at port76 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been running ubuntu on a ThinkPad X31 for a few days now. Today for
> the first time I had a problem where the fan came on and the Pentium M
> CPU was stuck at 1.4GHz even though the load on the system was very low.
> At the time all I was doing is surfing... This caused a big slow down
> when I tried to reboot the machine aswel, and ideas??

Run System Monitor (GUI equiv of top) under Applications -> System
Tools.  See what process is hogging the CPU.

A) report here and see if a bug report is necessary OR
B) kill it the run away process and pray it doesn't happen again, if it
does, "A" might be necessary
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