Sunday De-Gunking & Fan Spinning

So, it was time to severely de-gunk GF's T410... After a month and half without use the fan was simply refusing to spin up... So no magic and no Thinkpad.
Not the first time I've seeing this, not only on the T410, but also on the T60p...

Fan Error on my T60p: Fixed!

Took me a while, but it is finally fixed.
There was the usual gunk, but also the fan needed a bit of oil.
It worked A Ok after that, I simply changed the HDD from T60 to the T60p and went on booting without any issue on Trusty Tahr.

Fan Error on my T60p, DAMN!!

Unfortunately... Started yesterday, opened up the old & trusty lappie, to see if it was something rather light, like the fan error that the T410 belched, but this seems to be a bit bigger.
Dismantled a bit the poor thing, taking away the palm rest and the keyboard, and tested starting it up...
The fan spins correctly upon booting, but then stops spinning at once...
I don't have time right now to take apart the whole lappie, this would have to wait, I'm afraid.

Updating LM17 & Encryption FUBAR

A holiday around here, summer is coming, winter is dead.
Ideal time to upgrade Linux Mint on the T410, from LM13 to LM17, both the Cinnamon edition.

Of course, the damn lappie gave a "fan error" message, so I had to disassembly it force a bit of motion onto the god damn fan.

While doing so, and before closing it up, tested the whole thing... It runs, as the picture shows.

After that, a normal installation on the 128 GB SSD HD, updates plus all the shit I normally use on my boxes...

Only problem, and the first time I had one of these, was that after finishing the installation, I've changed my password, as I always do, but, somehow the sync between the password file and the encryption key of my $HOME lost sync, so I wasn't able to login via X Window/ Desktop, after I type my username/ password, and a 15/20 seconds delay, I got the error message:

Could not update ICEauthority file

So, I've tried login in thru a virtual console, no problem there, but got a warning message:

Signature not found in user keyring

If then I type:

ecryptfs-mount-private

Typing my old password, BTW... And then switch back to the X Window login console, I was albe to login without any problem at all.
But it was a major PITA.
Solution, reboot then switch to a virtual console and type:

ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase /home/.ecryptfs/$USER/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase

It'll ask the old password, and then new (the actual you are using!!!) twice.
After that, everything went A Ok.

T410 fan error: Manic Monday

Got the fan error on my beloved Thinkpad T410 this morning...
Simply refused to boot, a beep and then shutdown.
Opened the lappie up as far as I could -the photo is a piece of crap, but it is fairly evident the amount of crap that the fan had- and unclogged the poor little thing as best as I could.
Everything went A Ok after that, posting this from the T410, for that matter.
Not a nice way to start an effing Monday.