I have solved this problem by installing the newest rewritten version of Thinkfan [1]. It should be included in the official repositories for Ubuntu Xenial.
[1] https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1494546 Title: Thinkfan will occasionally send garbage to fan control (setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfan/+bug/1494546/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
