On 6/15/2015 2:04 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
I use a dell e6420 as my daily laptop/workstation. It stays docked and on 24/7 while at home, often running multiple vms or docker containers. I've not experienced what you have described. The laptop does get a little warm during certain video conference meetings, I do not have any thermal shutdown events. I would check for fan function and speed, then firmware for possible related updates.
If it helps, my specifics are (according to dmidecode):
BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: A19 Release Date: 06/24/2013 System Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Latitude E6420 Version: 01 Base Board Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: 032T9K Version: A01
Thanks for that. I have the laptop running now and am logged into a virtual console.
dmidecode details for my laptop:
BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: A21 Release Date: 11/14/2013
System Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Latitude E6420 Version: 01
Base Board Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: 032T9K Version: A02
I might try downgrading the BIOS version to see if that helps. I don't know that I've tried doing that with Dell's utility before, but I'll give it a shot.
I setup a short loop to append the output of /usr/bin/sensors to a log file and then call 'sync' just after.
This is the last entry just before the system shut down:
acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +25.0°C (crit = +107.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: N/A (high = +95.0°C, hyst = +3.0°C) (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C) (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +46.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +46.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +42.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
and this is the first entry just before I logged in:
acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +25.0°C (crit = +107.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: N/A (high = +95.0°C, hyst = +3.0°C) (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C) (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +40.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +40.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +39.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Looks like the system is a bit warm, but not overly so? So far I've not figured out how to check the fan speed. I'll keep looking.