Hi Folks, My laptop (which was quite busy at the time) suddenly switched itselfr off. I checked the power lead etc., and then switched it back on, and since then it's been fine.

I don't really know what happened. It may have been a loose connection in the power supply (the battery is shot, so any interruption kills it immediately); I may have accidentally tapped on the power button (I was typing furiously at the time); but more probably I suspect that the machine may have been over-heating and decided to switch itself off. It felt quite warm, but not really hot.

This led me to look for any program that monitors things like the state (including temperature) of the system (e.g. CPU temperature or whatever), but I didn't find anything.

Any suggestions as to what I should look for?

This is a rather old Debian system (2010) on which I'm running "classic Gnome" (thank God), and for various to reasons it has reached the state where Debian-sourced updates or further software can no longer be installed off repositories. So anything new would have to be installed from scratch.

An alternative might be the contents of something under /dev which stores ambient system information, which I could then decipher for myself. But I'm also wondering where that might be!

With thanks for any suggestions, Ted.

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