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? > 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).
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