Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262068AbUCDS33 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:29:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262069AbUCDS33 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:29:29 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:61371 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262068AbUCDS3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:29:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4047756D.2050402@blue-labs.org> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:29:01 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040220 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and up Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 20 powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes ERROR: Unable to read battery status powerix root # dmesg -c ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS powerix root # uname -r 2.6.4-rc1 This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something. Some while after reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery information gets munged. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/