Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262200AbUCEEYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:24:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262205AbUCEEYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:24:49 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:47042 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262200AbUCEEYs (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4048015D.6070308@blue-labs.org> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:26:05 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Young CC: jason@stdbev.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and up References: <4047756D.2050402@blue-labs.org> <200403051520.40341.sgy-lkml@amc.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200403051520.40341.sgy-lkml@amc.com.au> 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: 1833 Lines: 46 run a watch -n 1 'cat /proc.../status' and it'll happen really quick, on my machine it happens inside 15 minutes. my notebook is a dell inpsiron 8200. Stuart Young wrote: >On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:08 pm, Jason Munro wrote: > > >>Same here on a Toshiba 1410-s173 noteboook: >> >>[logger] ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined >>[kernel] ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BUFF] in namespace, >> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS >> >>I don't think it's happened in less than 24 hours of uptime, during which >>everything is good. I have been using suspend to ram daily if that matters >>(echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep). >> >>Linux version 2.6.3-wolk1.0 (root@jackass) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040217 >>(Gentoo Linux 3.3.3, propolice-3.3-7)) #1 Thu Feb 26 16:18:24 CST 2004 >> >> > >Happened once to me. I actually thought my battery was dying, so I went into >the BIOS and did a battery cycle (full discharge). Hasn't come back since, >but I'd guess that was a co-incidence. Probably needed it anyway. > >Feb 21 18:32:10 kosh kernel: ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [NACH] in >namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS >Feb 21 18:32:10 kosh kernel: ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed >[\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node c7f88ba0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS > >Was running 2.6.3 (vanilla) at the time. Uptime at this point (first mention >in logs) was ~1 day, 1 hour & 15 mins. Probably haven't had >24 hrs uptime >since then. Will have this weekend (for testing). > >Laptop is an Asus L7300/L7200 (PIII-600 on 440MX chipset) with the latest >BIOS. Currently running 2.6.4-rc2 vanilla. > > - 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/