On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 08:59 -0800, Russell Johnson wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:57 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 
> > Well, I no sooner than hit the Send button after typing that on my
> > desktop computer, and suddenly the Thinkpad started booting. Fedora
> > came up normally, and here I am. 
> 
> As to what the root problem is, I like your heat theory. If it were me, I 
> would clean out any ports, and possibly disassemble enough of the system to 
> get at any fans to blow those out. 

I know I've had load problems on my T410 when I've run Virtualbox...
might try getting a baseline before you try again, i.e. get the current
temp on your system with the following command.

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature

and of course for current load

top

John, I wonder if Virtualbox is locking up your system by overloading
your CPU.

Side bit, possibly unrelated -- I can't run Virtualbox and KVM
simultaneously.

Thanks,
Mike

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