It seems the i8k module is at fault. With the i8kmon process running, the machine crashes in a small number of minutes (it stutters and pauses for a few seconds at a time and gets worse and worse until it panics).
If I instead run at the console: while cat /proc/i8kmon ; do : ; done, it outputs a few lines with sane temperatures, stutters a few times, and then panics a small number of seconds later, always, I think, having something to do with "coretemp" as in this posted bug report. It could even be the BIOS of the machine at fault. It's on A02, the current version is A12, http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R215212&SystemID=VOS_N_1710&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=17546&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=6&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=305045 and A07 changelog said something about the thermal control (if only I could work out how to upgrade the blasted bios without their windows only crap). -- TimC > aibohphobia, n., The fear of palindromes And here I thought it was the fear of robotic Japanese dogs. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
