On Thu, Apr 9, 2015, at 12:30, Eoin Jordan wrote: > I'm hoping that you can help me on this, this alert is starting to happen > more frequently on my TP540: > > Apr 8 17:53:50 oc1165430346 kernel: thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL ALERT: unknown > thermal alarm received > Apr 8 17:53:50 oc1165430346 kernel: thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event > 0x6040
You can safely ignore this. Event 0x6040 is not a problem, and the "thermal alert" is a driver error: it thinks every 0x6000-class event is related to thermal management, but we found out this wasn't true when the newer thinkpads started issuing events such as 0x6040 which are not related to thermal events at all. > What does it mean, and is there any way to stop it from happening? It is > crashing my laptop up to 3 times per day.. The thinkpad-acpi stuff isn't crashing your laptop, we get those messages from just about every modern thinkpad and it really is harmless. But it does give you a hint: event 0x6040 is the thinkpad reporting that it has been disconnected from AC power. Did you? Even if there is no hardware defects (i.e. you did disconnect it from AC at that time), it might mean something that reacts to AC power state change is triggering the crashes. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
