9.10 and sudden reboots on a Lenovo T60 thinkpad

[Bill Moseley]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:

>
> Check your logs for a message which indicates ACPI thinks something is
> over temperature and a shutdown was initiated.  I have had intermittent
> temperature sensor problems on my T61 which has caused it to shutdown on
> occasion.  Other folks have had the same problem and it appears to be a
> rather odd ACPI bug.  The message in the logs is something like:
>
> Critical temperature reached...
>

Nope.  Plus, this is not a normal OS shut-down.  Yesterday, for example, I
was composing an email in Chrome/Gmail and the screen just when black and
within a second the Thinkpad's BIOS splash screen displayed.  As if the
machine was off and I just turned it on to start it up.    Nothing to
indicate it was restarting or halting or anything in the logs I could see.

More commonly, I'm seeing freezes.  Also yesterday I unplugged the power
cord and the machine froze.  I could not change VTs (e.g. ctrl+alt+F1).
 Also sometimes happens after waking up from sleeping.  Had to hold down the
power button.

I'm starting to suspect hardware on the laptop, but like I said this all
started with 9.10 upgrade.  I should probably reinstall 9.04 and see if it
goes away.  Not thrilled about having to rebuild all the tools I need for
work on this laptop, but a fresh install is always a nice way to clean out
the crud.




-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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