setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument
setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument
setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument
setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument
setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument
Hi
Thanks for the reply I was giving up hope :)
> My guess would be that thinkfan gets corrupted data from 'somewhere',
> and then some lack of bounds or type checking messes up other internal
> variables and leads to corrupt data being written out.
To be more 'scientific' I tried first to make thinkfan print cur_lvl
value when workign, so I patched system.c code like this:
diff --git a/system.c b/system.c
index 43d7515..86eb492 100644
--- a/system.c
+++ b/system.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ void setfan_ibm() {
errcnt |= ERR_FAN_SET;
}
else {
+ report(LOG_INFO, LOG_INFO, "cur_lvl = %s\n", cur_lvl);
if (unlikely(write(ibm_fan, cur_lvl, l) < l)) {
prefix = "\n";
report(LOG_ERR, LOG_ERR, MSG_ERR_FANCTRL);
And the result is (as expected), something like this:
sleeptime=5, tmax=96, last_tmax=96, biased_tmax=96 -> fan="level 3"
cur_lvl = level 3
cur_lvl = level 3
cur_lvl = level 3
sleeptime=5, tmax=71, last_tmax=104, biased_tmax=71 -> fan="level 7"
cur_lvl = level 7
cur_lvl = level 7
cur_lvl = level 7
sleeptime=2, tmax=104, last_tmax=70, biased_tmax=155 -> fan="level 3"
cur_lvl = level 3
While when thinkfan is 'broken' the output is something like this:
cur_lvl =
Cleaning up and resetting fan control.
cur_lvl = D
Cleaning up and resetting fan control.
cur_lvl = d
Cleaning up and resetting fan control.
cur_lvl = ê
Cleaning up and resetting fan control.
cur_lvl = T
Cleaning up and resetting fan control.
These are all from different runs since thinkfan crashes each time
(strange charachters may look different on may terminal, but I think the
point is that cur_lvl points to sequence of bytes all messed up).
> Can you try to monitor /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal with
> a script or so and see if anything weird is going on?
I did that and I could not see nothing unusual on my
/proc/acpi/ibm/thermal, except that one sensor (the 10th, counting from
0) jumps up and down between 100 and -100, some sensors are always 0
and the other looks like real temperaturs; though I couldn't find out
what are all about, I just guess that 0 and 2 are my two cpu cores (This
is an i3 with 2 cores, 4 with hiperthreading).
For completeness: I'm experimenting this issue on a Thinkpad Edge 11'
dmidecode -s bios-version
86ET33WW (1.17 )
I did a bios upgrade some month ago, but this was happending before.
I'm diving now a little more into thinkfan source code (slowly, because it
is a long time I don't read C). I will see if I can spot the source of
those strange chars.
Thanks
Marco
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