[nylug-talk] Critical Trip Point - (overheating)

[Alex Gill]

Hi List,

I've been using my Dell C400 (deb) laptop for four years almost daily.  
Yesterday, after watching a video (flash-based) on youtube.com, with the 
fans blowing hard, I suddenly received the below message written to 
/var/log/messages.  Have readers run into this problem -- heat causing a 
hasty and immediate system halt?


Oct  5 00:29:14 localhost -- MARK --
Oct  5 00:48:53 localhost kernel: acpi_thermal-0472 [04] 
thermal_critical      :
 Critical trip point
Oct  5 00:48:53 localhost shutdown[16515]: shutting down for system halt
Oct  5 00:49:04 localhost kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Oct  5 00:49:04 localhost kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Oct  5 00:49:04 localhost exiting on signal 15
Oct  5 00:50:16 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#16: restart.
Oct  5 00:50:16 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1#16, log source = 
/proc/kmsg starte
d.
Oct  5 00:50:16 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
Oct  5 00:50:17 localhost kernel: Loaded 26862 symbols from 
/boot/System.map.