Laptop Fans are disabled after Flight 6 Upgrade

[Paul Drain]

After upgrading to Flight 6 on a newly installed Flight 4 install, the fan on my laptop no longer seems to work after X boots.

If I start the machine in rescue mode, the fan fires up OK and keeps the machine ~65degrees.

If I exit the rescue mode, the fan shuts down after the "Checking Battery State" initscript starts.

A standard boot process has the fans running until just before the GDM screen appears, then the fans seem to shut down.

All other ACPI functions (battery life, thermal zone, etc) still work correctly, verified with an 'acpi -t' run.

This results in a hard lock on AC or battery after a CPU intensive process (like Firefox + Evolution) has been running for an hour or so.

The same hard lock can be obtained on AC by running gnome-screensaver with the footlogo-floaters theme.

[Paul Drain (pd)]

The dmesg output on the affected machine.

[Paul Drain (pd)]

The results of dmidecode.

[Paul Drain (pd)]

The results of 'lspci -v'

[Paul Drain (pd)]

A straight 'cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*' run after the initial bootup in recovery mode.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This woiuld seem to be a power manager issue of some kind. The kernel just does what it is told :)

[Paul Drain (pd)]

Could it also be an acpi-support issue? The fans in this particular machine are passively controlled and there's no BIOS functionality to change the temperature based control.

... because i've just had the same lockup appear after 4 hours with GDM sitting on the screen (ie. not being logged in, just powered up)

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

This isn't a gnome-power-manager bug IMO.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Do you still have the problem with the current Edgy ?

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Do you still have this problem in the current hardy?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.