It appears that a recent update fixed the issues, since the fan is working again. In the past few days I saw a acpi-support package in the Update Manager, maybe this fixed it. With the power unplugged the fan did work, very strange, but now it works again with the power plugged in. I remember having the same issue with a very early alpha of Ubuntu 8.04, but I didn't report it back then.
Status: fixed -- thinkpad z60m overheats (fan not working?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203351 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs