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Hi.
I've just installed Debian LINUX, and yes, I can enter my loging name
and password. But I can't go beyond a message that says:

"ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [dbbb4dec] 'on' "

every 6 seconds to infinite.

Could sombody help me please?

Thanks in advance.

AnimasTrujano4@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi.
> I've just installed Debian LINUX, and yes, I can enter my loging name
> and password. But I can't go beyond a message that says:
>
> "ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [dbbb4dec] 'on' "
>
> every 6 seconds to infinite.
>
> Could sombody help me please?

This is just a guess, since I've never seen that problem before.

Try booting without acpi support.
If you boot with grub, try hitting "a" then adding "noacpi" (without
quotes) to the kernel parameters.
Once booted, add the "noacpi" to grub.conf/menu.lst (so you don't have
to keep entering it at the boot prompt).

DBBs are data structures used by acpi to know about the hardware.
Either your kernel is mistaken about your hardware or you really have a
cooling device error. Any chance you have a fried fan or something
(also a guess)?

HTH

AnimasTrujano4@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi.
> I've just installed Debian LINUX, and yes, I can enter my loging name
> and password. But I can't go beyond a message that says:
>
> "ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [dbbb4dec] 'on' "
>
> every 6 seconds to infinite.
>
> Could sombody help me please?

Never heard of such a problem. Is the fan running? If so then the message is an
error. And as you say to infinite, running or not the computer is not dead so
maybe it doesn't need to be on. But these days there should be some fan activity
at least at boot time so maybe it is faulty or maybe the "I am on" circuit is
faulty.

Turn on showing the boot details and enter an interactive boot and don't turn
on ACPI and see what happens. Whatever the hell ACPI is of course.

If infinite has been an hour I wouldn't worry about it much. Touch the CPU. If
you can it is not too hot.

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