I changed the summary because the message you see is not related to the deactivation. this is what I see: Nov 10 09:31:18 oldboy /usr/sbin/irqbalance[31556]: thermal: socket bind failed, thermald may not be running. Nov 10 09:31:18 oldboy /usr/sbin/irqbalance[31556]: Failed to initialize thermal events. and it keeps running. the hint "thermald might not be running" is here what is wrong. on your system thermald is not installed or not running.