[SOLVED] 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon MacBook Pro Overheating Locking Up Freezing
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:48 am
Installed 19.2 (2 weeks ago) on an early 2011 MacBook Pro (Core i5 2.3GHz) 13" (I5-2415M) Model A1278 (EMC 2419). 4GB RAM, 384MB VRAM, 320GB HDD. I have been searching the boards, but don't see my specific issue represented so here we go.
Laptop has overheating and freezing issues (and when frozen you can hear the fan cranking in overdrive). When putting the lid down for the night, when I come back it will be hot to the touch. Sometimes the login screen is locked (frozen - I can't enter my password, the mouse doesn't work, I have to do a hard reset: Holding down the power button). This was happening more often when it was first installed, but I disabled hardware acceleration in both Firefox and Chrome, which did lessen the problem, but it wasn't a fix as I probably have to do one hard reset daily at this time.
I did change the battery back when it still had OSX installed, but I never had overheating problems with that OS. Looking through the forum, I've seen others include the following info for similar issues.
When running normally, this is the sensor readout:
I've tried to get sensor readings when overheating, but it is often locked up so I'm unable to sort that out. I've also been looking at processes. When using system monitor, weirdly, no matter what I'm running, %CPU is always at 0 for every process. However, when I go to Resources, it is active and shows me real-time changes via the visual graphing system.
Using Terminal, I actually get some information (maybe I should submit System Monitor not working as a bug report?)
I was going to include a snapshot of System Monitor (not working), but once I used "top" in Terminal, System Monitor started relaying my %CPU processes. Interesting.
I ran a test to see if I could get 19.2 to crash and was successful. I opened Firefox and Chrome, ran Netflix and YouTube respectively with a movie playing on VLC. That did it. The picture above shows Chrome as perhaps "the" culprit in this test, but this system still freezes up without running chrome. Maybe the way 19.2 is managing data and processes is the issue? Something to do with the cache or memory? I was forced to do a hard reset in this case.
The highest temps before reset were reaching around 91 deg C. When 19.2 locks up, if I don't hard reset, it keeps spinning and heating up until I do.
Laptop has overheating and freezing issues (and when frozen you can hear the fan cranking in overdrive). When putting the lid down for the night, when I come back it will be hot to the touch. Sometimes the login screen is locked (frozen - I can't enter my password, the mouse doesn't work, I have to do a hard reset: Holding down the power button). This was happening more often when it was first installed, but I disabled hardware acceleration in both Firefox and Chrome, which did lessen the problem, but it wasn't a fix as I probably have to do one hard reset daily at this time.
I did change the battery back when it still had OSX installed, but I never had overheating problems with that OS. Looking through the forum, I've seen others include the following info for similar issues.
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inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: MacBookProCi52011 Kernel: 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.2.4
Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245B3640C91C81 v: MacBookPro8,1 serial: <filter>
UEFI: Apple v: 82.0.0.0.0 date: 09/25/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 66.4 Wh condition: 66.4/64.8 Wh (103%)
model: EGOWAY A1322 status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2415M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 18360
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 894 2: 973
3: 959 4: 880
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.8
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-64-generic
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet
PCIe
driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: efa0 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl v: kernel port: efa0
bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 313.09 GiB used: 60.13 GiB (19.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545032B9A302 size: 298.09 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 15.00 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 291.92 GiB used: 28.25 GiB (9.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 1.0 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 215 Uptime: 17h 43m Memory: 3.77 GiB used: 1.74 GiB (46.3%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20
inxi: 3.0.32
When running normally, this is the sensor readout:
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sensors
applesmc-isa-0300
Adapter: ISA adapter
Exhaust : 2001 RPM (min = 2000 RPM, max = 6200 RPM)
TB0T: +28.2°C
TB1T: +31.0°C
TB2T: +30.2°C
TC0C: +64.0°C
TC0D: +61.0°C
TC0E: +66.8°C
TC0F: +67.2°C
TC0J: +0.5°C
TC0P: +58.0°C
TC1C: +63.0°C
TC2C: +63.0°C
TCGC: +64.0°C
TCSA: +63.0°C
TCTD: -0.2°C
TM0P: +45.0°C
TM0S: +56.0°C
TMBS: +0.0°C
TP0P: +59.2°C
TPCD: +60.0°C
TW0P: -127.0°C
Th1H: +48.0°C
Ts0P: +32.5°C
Ts0S: +44.0°C
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +71.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +71.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +66.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
BAT0-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +28.5°C
Using Terminal, I actually get some information (maybe I should submit System Monitor not working as a bug report?)
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aj@MacBookProCi52011:~$ top
top - 11:40:39 up 18:03, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.37, 0.27
Tasks: 216 total, 1 running, 158 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.5 us, 0.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 96.6 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 3950228 total, 224592 free, 1466764 used, 2258872 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 2096636 total, 2095600 free, 1036 used. 1937020 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1823 aj 20 0 3598064 133616 65876 S 3.3 3.4 10:24.53 cinnamon
1175 root 20 0 520284 79084 56468 S 3.0 2.0 6:07.38 Xorg
13655 aj 20 0 630712 37680 27736 S 3.0 1.0 0:03.24 gnome-term+
13978 aj 20 0 499936 46532 34976 S 3.0 1.2 0:10.72 gnome-syst+
13492 aj 20 0 2704696 185012 108712 S 1.7 4.7 0:17.88 Web Content
14031 aj 20 0 44180 4016 3288 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.21 top
1017 root 20 0 4552 780 720 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.66 acpid
1075 root 20 0 558856 16908 13632 S 0.3 0.4 0:12.73 NetworkMan+
1645 aj 20 0 711568 59064 37316 S 0.3 1.5 7:35.22 cinnamon-s+
13213 aj 20 0 3252040 427608 146172 S 0.3 10.8 2:46.13 firefox
13553 aj 20 0 2777288 228132 125484 S 0.3 5.8 0:29.11 Web Content
1 root 20 0 225628 9396 6720 S 0.0 0.2 0:02.45 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:+
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_+
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.74 ksoftirqd/0
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:27.81 rcu_sched
The highest temps before reset were reaching around 91 deg C. When 19.2 locks up, if I don't hard reset, it keeps spinning and heating up until I do.