On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: >> THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi: >> temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40 46 56 N/A N/A N/A >> N/A N/A >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.435288] Critical temperature >> reached (103 C), shutting down. >> Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity shutdown[4494]: shutting down for system halt > > Hm, why does the list of temperatures not include the cited 103 degC?
I think the temperature was rising faster than the logging rate >> After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the >> cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that >> might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU >> cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted and re-run the rsync >> copy command which this time ran to completion without overheating. > > Assuming that the processor is actually overheating, perhaps it would > help to remove the heatsink and replace the thermal compound (Arctic > Silver seems to be the recommended replacement). Thanks. The CPU is currently at 60 C with minimal load so shall do that as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caajnqcz20-nuvpbjyfxtfpgk9cuy951c0ppg5tqmqqpscko...@mail.gmail.com