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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #295

Comment 295 for bug 59695

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donzilluh (donzilluh) wrote :

My laptop was showing these symptoms. It's a HP DV6645us bought only 2 months ago on Oct 10th. I just recently installed Ubuntu and stumbled upon this article with only 9 hours of uptime. So I feel as I have lucked out. This is a very harmful bug though and needs to be incorporated into the automatic software updates somehow. I am a linux semi-noob and this one truly scared me.

  9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always
     866

This shows a rate of almost 100 cycles per hour. My disk's total load cycle count is only 24,617, considering this is from only 2 months of use and 9 hrs of gutsy gibbon uptime I am very thankful Gilles Schintgen discovered this bug.