Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 12/11/06, Greg Trounson <gregt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote:
> Mike Chalmers wrote:
...
>> Once again, things like this are unacceptable. I am afraid to use
>> Fedora 6 now. I alos, have am having problems after a clean
>> installation.
>
> That's misplaced fear -- fear your *hardware*.
Unless there is a problem with, say, lmsensors mis-reading the CPU
temperature register
and freaking out.
Not impossible, I should think.
Greg
I do not think that lm_sensors is involved in that process.
Apologies, I should have said acpid.
To add further credibility to the dodgy software theory though, what hardware/firmware
protection mechanisms do you know of that upon detecting high CPU temperature dump the
user back to a login screen?
Returning to the login screen could be either a reboot or killing X, neither of which a
sane BIOS would do in a CPU overheat event. Every BIOS I've ever seen shuts the machine
down, which makes more sense if it's overheating.
Greg
