Bug 459479 - Kernel goes into thermal shutdown very easily
Summary: Kernel goes into thermal shutdown very easily
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Feeney
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 431494
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-19 09:05 UTC by Patrick C. F. Ernzer
Modified: 2013-01-10 07:05 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-11-18 15:31:33 UTC
Type: ---
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/var/log/dmesg from this morning's boot (31.61 KB, text/plain)
2008-08-19 09:05 UTC, Patrick C. F. Ernzer
no flags Details

Description Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-08-19 09:05:00 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #431494 +++

Description of problem:

Same problem as Bug #431494, under F9 on IBM X60 (model 1706-GMG). Running CPU intensive things (in my case the nightly amanda backup (laptop is a client) makes the machine go into thermal shutdown mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:

machine does thermal shutdown every night

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have machine on and happy all day with light CPU load
2. backup runs at night
3. Machine is off in the morning and logs show thermal shutdown was initiated

Comment 1 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-08-19 09:05:54 UTC
Created attachment 314518 [details]
/var/log/dmesg from this morning's boot

Comment 2 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-08-19 09:09:38 UTC
from /var log messages:
Aug 18 07:05:15 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20527 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:05:45 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: EXIT: amanda status=0 pid=20527 duration=30(sec)
Aug 18 07:05:45 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20578 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:06:15 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: EXIT: amanda status=0 pid=20578 duration=30(sec)
Aug 18 07:06:15 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20625 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:06:45 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: EXIT: amanda status=0 pid=20625 duration=30(sec)
Aug 18 07:06:45 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20673 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:07:15 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: EXIT: amanda status=0 pid=20673 duration=30(sec)
Aug 18 07:07:22 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20729 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:07:53 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: EXIT: amanda status=0 pid=20729 duration=31(sec)
Aug 18 07:11:23 x60-pcfe xinetd[2622]: START: amanda pid=20954 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 18 07:14:20 x60-pcfe kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point
Aug 18 07:14:20 x60-pcfe kernel: Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down.

and the next night:
Aug 19 06:10:38 x60-pcfe xinetd[2623]: START: amanda pid=21961 from=::ffff:192.168.50.9
Aug 19 06:15:23 x60-pcfe kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point
Aug 19 06:15:23 x60-pcfe kernel: Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down.

Comment 3 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-08-19 09:20:03 UTC
FWIW: last evening I did:
echo 'level 7' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan to nail the fan at high speed, machine still shut down.
(and, yes, I do have "options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1" so that this actually does control the fan speed)

Comment 5 Matthew Garrett 2008-08-19 15:54:31 UTC
Could be http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/12/217 ? I don't have an F9 tree handy.

Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2008-08-22 00:08:30 UTC
This bug is new in upstream 2.6.25.14 and is fixed in 2.6.26.2-14.fc9

Upstream commit is 9f497bcc695fb828da023d74ad3c966b1e58ad21

Fedora patch is linux-2.6-acpi-processor-use-signed-int.patch

This is not fixed in either upstream 2.6.25.16 or 2.6.26.3 ...

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-08-24 19:49:12 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.3-17.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.26.3-17.fc9

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-08-31 15:01:59 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.3-27.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.26.3-27.fc9

Comment 9 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-08-31 21:14:28 UTC
2.6.26.3-27.fc9.x86_64 does not solve the problem for me.

To test I enabled boinc-client (hogs the CPU massively) and the machine went to Critical trip point within 30 minutes.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-09-03 16:49:31 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-09-05 12:19:40 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-09-10 07:07:04 UTC
kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-09-17 11:16:32 UTC
Just to be complete

I have mixed results with 2.6.26.3-29.fc9
  - my nightly amanda run completed fine, so may main concern is solved (and hence not reopening bug)
  - if I force 100% CPU usage (again with boinc) the machine will thermal shutdown, but this seems warranted as it does run so hot that it will refuse to power up immediately after this (x60 1706-GMG does have sub-par cooling capabilities it seems) and running boinc is just a test on this notebook

Comment 15 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2009-03-20 07:28:06 UTC
problem is back :-(
running F10 updated, kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64
machine will again go into thermal shutdown during nightly amanda run.

Comment 16 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2009-07-17 09:18:10 UTC
FWIW: a week ago I cleaned out my fan assembly with compressed air, since then I have not had the machine go into thermal shutdown.
While this helps, it is not perfect as in the times it did thermal shutdown, I never once saw a temp over 90 Celsius, either there is a point where temp goes up really fast or the counting in hardware is bad.
But, at least for me (ambient air temperature is seldom over 20 Celsius), the problem is resolved and considering the age of my x60 (it's 2.5 years old now), this solution is sufficient.

For those that want to clean; be sure to immobilise the fan with a pen or screwdriver, before blowing air through it.

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Comment 18 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2009-11-18 15:31:33 UTC
Problem remains fixed.
Laptop will be out of warranty in February and F10 is nearinf EOL, so closing.


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