[ltp] Unsolicited requests for shut down

Evgeni Golov linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 16 May 2012 11:56:12 +0200


Hi,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:48:14AM +0100, Athanasios Velios wrote:

> Since February I have a strange problem on my Thinkpad X220 Tablet
> which runs Linux. When there seems to be a lot of activity (e.g.
> backing up or compressing files) the OS requests to shut down as if
> I chose Shut Down from the menu. This happens with different
> distributions (I have tried Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 and the current
> Fedora). I am not sure where to look for possible errors. The logs
> do not show something obvious, but I may not be looking at the right
> place.
> 
> Any ideas?

Is it overheating maybe?

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