Description of problem: Thinkfan no longer works. [sudhir@fedora ~]$ sudo thinkfan -n WARNING: Using default fan control in /proc/acpi/ibm/fan. WARNING: You're using simple temperature limits without correction values, and your fan will only start at 55 °C. This can be dangerous for your hard drive. setfan_ibm: Error writing to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan: Invalid argument Cleaning up and resetting fan control. systemctl status thinkfan.service -l ● thinkfan.service - simple and lightweight fan control program Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2015-07-27 10:34:54 IST; 2h 33min ago Process: 733 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/thinkfan (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 741 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora systemd[1]: Starting simple and lightweight fan control program... Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora thinkfan[733]: thinkfan 0.9.1 starting... Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora thinkfan[733]: WARNING: Using default fan control in /proc/acpi/ibm/fan. Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora thinkfan[733]: WARNING: You're using simple temperature limits without correction values, and your fan will only start at 55 °C. This can be dangerous for your hard drive. Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora thinkfan[733]: Daemon PID: 741 Jul 27 10:34:29 fedora systemd[1]: Started simple and lightweight fan control program. ls -al /proc/acpi/ibm/fan -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 27 13:10 /proc/acpi/ibm/fan [sudhir@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/thinkfan.conf ###################################################################### # thinkfan 0.7 example config file # ================================ # # ATTENTION: There is only very basic sanity checking on the configuration. # That means you can set your temperature limits as insane as you like. You # can do anything stupid, e.g. turn off your fan when your CPU reaches 70°C. # # That's why this program is called THINKfan: You gotta think for yourself. # ###################################################################### # # IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads (thinkpad_acpi, /proc/acpi/ibm) # ==================================================== # # IMPORTANT: # # To keep your HD from overheating, you have to specify a correction value for # the sensor that has the HD's temperature. You need to do this because # thinkfan uses only the highest temperature it can find in the system, and # that'll most likely never be your HD, as most HDs are already out of spec # when they reach 55 °C. # Correction values are applied from left to right in the same order as the # temperatures are read from the file. # # For example: # tp_thermal /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal (0, 0, 10) # will add a fixed value of 10 °C the 3rd value read from that file. Check out # http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors to find out how much you may # want to add to certain temperatures. # Syntax: # (LEVEL, LOW, HIGH) # LEVEL is the fan level to use (0-7 with thinkpad_acpi) # LOW is the temperature at which to step down to the previous level # HIGH is the temperature at which to step up to the next level # All numbers are integers. # # I use this on my T61p: #tp_fan /proc/acpi/ibm/fan #tp_thermal /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal (0, 10, 15, 2, 10, 5, 0, 3, 0, 3) hwmon /sys/devices/virtual/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input hwmon /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp3_input hwmon /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp1_input hwmon /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp2_input (0, 0, 55) (1, 48, 60) (2, 50, 61) (3, 52, 63) (4, 56, 65) (5, 59, 66) (7, 63, 32767) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.install thinkfan 2.add sensors find /sys/devices -type f -name "temp*_input" 3.enable and restart Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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Is this still an issue?
Closing due to no reply. Feel free to reopen if it still applies.
Hi Sandro, Yes, issue is still there. I am running 4.2.5-201.fc22.x86_64. There is a patch to possibly fix the issue. http://sourceforge.net/p/thinkfan/thinkfan-bugs/19/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfan/+bug/1494546 Thanks.
Thanks for suggesting the patch. Could you please test whether [1] works? [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=11717615
That seems to work. Feel free to close this bug.
thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-6061827f1d
thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update thinkfan' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-878d9fffd7
thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update thinkfan' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-6061827f1d
thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
I have regularly encountered this bug specially during system start. $ rpm -qa | grep thinkfan thinkfan-0.9.2-6.fc23.x86_64