Comment 30 for bug 636045

I have the same problem on my week old Sony VAIO VPCEB3J0E
It hasnt been causing any problems so far but now the fan has cycled up like a jet engine and its not slowing down.

$ uname -a
Linux Venom 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ tail /var/log/syslog
Jan 11 23:39:39 Venom kernel: [ 645.507344] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:39:44 Venom kernel: [ 650.498539] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:39:49 Venom kernel: [ 655.489660] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:39:54 Venom kernel: [ 660.480886] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:39:59 Venom kernel: [ 665.473338] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:40:04 Venom kernel: [ 670.463317] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:40:09 Venom kernel: [ 675.455738] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:40:14 Venom kernel: [ 680.446889] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:40:19 Venom kernel: [ 685.438068] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Jan 11 23:40:24 Venom kernel: [ 690.429273] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Discharging, 53%, 01:27:06 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 42180 mWh, last full capacity 42110 mWh = 99%
Adapter 0: off-line
Thermal 0: ok, 22.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 88.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 84.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: ok, 22.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 88.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 4 of 8
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10