Matt Sweeney

Asked: 2011-10-12 11:13:45 +0800 CST2011-10-12 11:13:45 +0800 CST 2011-10-12 11:13:45 +0800 CST

What does a temperature failure look like in the syslog?

I have a ubuntu server that I suspect failed due to overheating. I'm doing a post-mortem and I'm not exactly sure what to look for to confirm my hunch.

Any thoughts on what logged information would indicate a failure from overheating?

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the-wabbit
2011-10-12T12:49:57+08:002011-10-12T12:49:57+08:00
If you did not have sensord from the lm-sensors package running, you probably would never know for sure. Maybe you could try looking at side-channel data like SMART attribute logging done by smartd (smartmontools) - it logs attribute changes to syslog and may contain disk temperature - which in turn would allow an educated guess about the system's temperature.
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