I have had the same issue (on debian). And it was a thermal problem of the laptop (T410s). I simply phoned the support and they replaced the fan (it is nice to have on site service). After the fan was replaced the laptop is usually below 70°C again even if it is loaded.
I expect that everyone else here has exactly that issue, ie. a broken fan/thermal system in the laptop. A software solution will *not* help if it is a hardware fault. Everyone affected (especially if you still have warranty) should contact the hardware vendor to get the issue resolved. PS: I actually had this issue twice already. Once right after the laptop was shipped, and then it appeared again after ~1.5-2 years of use. Both times a fan replacement fixed it (the fan itself seemed to work fine though). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009731 Title: Since 12.04, CPU is overheating and powering off spontaneously under high computation load To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfan/+bug/1009731/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
