Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati
While I was using my computer, doing perfectly normal things, such as reading news articles in Firefox, my graphics card's fan suddenly completely stopped, causing the GPU to overheat. At first I thought that the fan was slowing down because there wasn't anything particularly GPU intensive going on, and system load was below normal, however, like 10 minutes after, the screen turned completely black, and the computer locked up. This almost certainly because the GPU overheated. The first thing I did was tried Alt-SysRq-K to reboot the X server. That did nothing, so I tried Alt-SysRq-REISUB, and the system did NOT reboot. I'm assuming there may have been a kernel panic. Therefore, I held in the power button on my computer until it turned off. Shortly after that, I hit the power button again to turn the computer back on, but immediately after pressing the power button, the system fans started spinning at maximum speed for a split second and the system immediately shut off. No BIOS POST information was displayed on the screen or anything. So, I assumed the system shut off because it overheated and it was trying to protect the hardware. I let it sit for a couple of minutes, and then I managed to get it to turn on. Something worth noting here is that the GPU fan worked perfectly fine after a full system reboot, making me believe this is some sort of driver problem. The first time I tried to boot it, Ubuntu froze before being able to load the splash screen, so I assumed it may either be because the GPU was still overheated and not working properly, or some file system corruption. I tried Alt-SysRq-B to reboot it, but surprisingly that did nothing, so I turned it off with the power button again. I then booted into recovery mode, and thankfully, I managed to get to the recovery options. I then proceeded to run the options "dpkg, clean, and resume", but when it finished loading services, I was in a text mode login instead of GDM, so I rebooted using Alt-SysRq-REISUB. I then booted Ubuntu with the normal boot method, and after running a quick fsck, I was able to login and post this bug report on the same computer. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.192-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 3 15:40:04 2010 DkmsStatus: virtualbox-ose, 3.1.4, 2.6.32-17-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox-ose, 3.1.4, 2.6.32-16-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox-ose, 3.1.4, 2.6.32-19-generic, x86_64: installed InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) MachineType: Shuttle Inc SG33 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=f75382cd-2436-4b42-96ef-0c1f545f6fa5 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati dmi.bios.date: 04/25/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG dmi.board.name: FG33 dmi.board.vendor: Shuttle Inc dmi.board.version: V10 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Shuttle Inc dmi.chassis.version: G5 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/25/2008:svnShuttleInc:pnSG33:pvrV10:rvnShuttleInc:rnFG33:rvrV10:cvnShuttleInc:ct3:cvrG5: dmi.product.name: SG33 dmi.product.version: V10 dmi.sys.vendor: Shuttle Inc system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: x86_64 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid -- Graphics Card Fan Suddenly Stopped While Using Computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554783 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp