Package: linux-image-6.1.0-10-amd64 Version: 6.1.38-1 Control: affects -1
src:linux
In the journal of a computer with motherboard ASUS WS C422 PRO/SE and Intel®
Xeon® W-2235 CPU @ 3.80GHz, 32 GB RAM, ASPEED AST2500 64MB built-in graphics
chip, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti PCIe graphics card, we see the yellow
warning “thermal thermal_zone0: failed to read out thermal zone (-61)”. Is this
a problem of software, firmware, or hardware? In plain English, what are we
really warned about? What to do to avoid whichever havoc might occur? The
probably relevant portions of the journal, lshw, and lspci are attached.
Gratefully,
AlMa
In journal:
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: nouveau 0000:65:00.0: vgaarb:
deactivate vga console
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: nouveau 0000:65:00.0: NVIDIA
TU116 (168000a1)
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI kcs
interface initialized
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounting boot-efi.mount -
/boot/efi...
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounting home.mount - /home...
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounting
media-AnonymizedLabelOne.mount - /media/AnonymizedLabelOne...
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounting
media-AnonymizedLabelTwo.mount - /media/AnonymizedLabelTwo...
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: tmp.mount: Directory /tmp to
mount over is not empty, mounting anyway.
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounting tmp.mount - /tmp...
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounted tmp.mount - /tmp.
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: ipmi_ssif: IPMI SSIF Interface
driver
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName ntfs-3g[698]: Version 2022.10.3
integrated FUSE 28
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName ntfs-3g[698]: Mounted /dev/nvme0n1p5
(Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1]: Mounted
media-AnonymizedLabelTwo.mount - /media/AnonymizedLabelTwo.
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName ntfs-3g[698]: Cmdline options:
rw,noatime,discard,commit=120
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName ntfs-3g[698]: Mount options:
discard,commit=120,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,rw,fsname=/dev/nvme0n1p5,blkdev,blksize=4096
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName ntfs-3g[698]: Ownership and permissions
disabled, configuration type 7
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: iwlwifi 0000:b3:00.0: Detected
Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal thermal_zone0: failed to
read out thermal zone (-61)
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: nouveau 0000:65:00.0: bios:
version 90.16.29.00.a9
# journalctl -b | grep -i -C 1 thermal
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: Mountpoint-cache hash table
entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes, linear)
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
(TM1)
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: process: using mwait in idle
threads
--
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: audit: type=2000
audit(1690058117.100:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal_sys: Registered thermal
governor 'fair_share'
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal_sys: Registered thermal
governor 'bang_bang'
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal_sys: Registered thermal
governor 'step_wise'
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal_sys: Registered thermal
governor 'user_space'
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal_sys: Registered thermal
governor 'power_allocator'
Jul 22 22:35:22 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: cpuidle: using governor ladder
--
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: iwlwifi 0000:b3:00.0: Detected
Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: thermal thermal_zone0: failed to
read out thermal zone (-61)
Jul 22 22:35:23 AnonymizedMachineName kernel: nouveau 0000:65:00.0: bios:
version 90.16.29.00.a9
Part of the output of lshw (searched for “thermal”):
*-generic:14 UNCLAIMED
description: Signal processing controller
product: 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:9094e000-9094efff
Part of the output of lspci (searched for “thermal”):
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal
Subsystem
DeviceName: Onboard - Other
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 14
NUMA node: 0
IOMMU group: 19
Region 0: Memory at 9094e000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
