[Bug 1471530] Re: Acer Aspire 5315: Fan turns off when loading linux, resulting in system overheat and emergency shutdown

Hello Christopher, Good news first: Updating the BIOS to v1.45 actually *fixed the fan issue.* It still stops briefly during kernel load, but resumes rotation within a second. If I run stress, the temperature sensor acpitz- virtual-0 updates within a few seconds to whatever coretemp-0 says,

[Bug 1471530] Re: Acer Aspire 5315: Fan turns off when loading linux, resulting in system overheat and emergency shutdown

Christopher, thank you for that information and the direct link, I've been able to download the BIOS file. Unfortunately, it's a windows-only download. I've extracted it with archive manager, and the program inside is called InsydeFlash.exe. Going by the wiki article you linked, it seems the only

[Bug 1471530] BootDmesg.txt

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[Bug 1471530] CRDA.txt

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[Bug 1471530] Re: Acer Aspire 5315: Fan turns off when loading linux, resulting in system overheat and emergency shutdown

apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: First off: I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Trusty Tahr, yet ubuntu-bug linux started the bug report against linux-lts-utopic. I hope it knows what it's doing : ) uname -a says Linux aspire5315 3.16.0-41-generic

[Bug 1471530] Lspci.txt

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[Bug 1471530] ProcInterrupts.txt

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[Bug 1471530] ProcModules.txt

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[Bug 1471530] Re: Acer Aspire 5315: Fan turns off when loading linux, resulting in system overheat and emergency shutdown

Since the machine was cold, I was able to get the apport-collect run before the wakeup. For completness, here's the output of dmesg after the suspend/wakeup cycle: ** Attachment added: DmesgAfterResume.txt

[Bug 728733] Re: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops

Christopher: I have created the new ticket #1471530 and subscribed you. I don't know how to correctly link the tickets (or whether I even should do that), so it would be nice if you or someone else would handle that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1471530] [NEW] Acer Aspire 5315: Fan turns off when loading linux, resulting in system overheat and emergency shutdown

Public bug reported: First off: I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Trusty Tahr, yet ubuntu-bug linux started the bug report against linux-lts-utopic. I hope it knows what it's doing : ) uname -a says Linux aspire5315 3.16.0-41-generic #57~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 18:01:13 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64

[Bug 728733] Re: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops

I've got some new observations on this that might help narrow down the problem. (1) thermald I've got thermald installed, and the default configuration seems to work *after* the standby/wakeup cycle. Before the machine goes into standby, the file cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

[Bug 728733] apport information

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: dannyedel 1550 F pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: Unity CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit

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[Bug 728733] ProcEnviron.txt

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[Bug 728733] UdevLog.txt

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[Bug 728733] ProcInterrupts.txt

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[Bug 728733] Re: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops

colin-king: I have not yet heard of thermald, will try it out after this comment. First I have new (and to me, confusing) information. To run apport-collect, i first booted it *without* acpi=off nolapic so it has wi-fi (but no fan). After it finished booting, I put it to suspend to let it cool

[Bug 728733] Re: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops

Hello everyone, a friend brought me an Aspire 5315 with an Ubuntu installed, which shows the exact same symptoms as the original poster (It just turns off after a while and gets really hot, but the fan doesnt work), so I can confirm this bug still exists in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Since the bug has

[Bug 728733] Re: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops

Regarding thermald: I have installed it and if I understand the manual correctly, it can only act with fans that are already registered in sysfs as cooling devices. If I go to /sys/class/thermal I have two cooling_devices (the CPU and the LCD, no fans here). The CPU's cur_state affects