Bug 27432
| Summary: | apmd daemon not starting | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | John A. Hull <john_hull> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | bero, jrfuller, mh2001 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-08-04 19:17:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
John A. Hull
2001-02-13 19:16:01 UTC
Is this an SMP system? It's either an SMP system or the kernel was recompiled without APM support. apmd is working perfectly on all my UP systems. SMP and APM don't work together, this is a limitation of the apm protocol, not of apmd. I didn't know that apmd is not supported with the SMP kernel. I verified that apmd does start and work correctly with the UP kernel on this system, and that it does not work with the SMP kernel. This gentleman has a Presarrio 1900 163XL. The installer put a kernel that has no apmd support. He is Cc'd on this Bug report and will post comments. I had him type: /usr/sbin/apmd start He got the error message "no apmd support in kernel." So I am assuming there is a porblem either with ampd or the intaller. Mr. Holcomb is the one who has this issue. He will post the results of uname -r. [root@localhost /root]# uname -r 2.4.2-2 [root@localhost /root]# This is the kernel I am running. The apm daemon is not supposed to start on kernels without APM support (such as all SMP systems - APM is not SMP-safe). Hey Bero, I am reopening this because I do not believe that 2.4.2-2 is an SMP kernel. 2.4.2-2smp is, right? Please explain why you are saying that 2.4.2-2 is an SMP kernel? Also, this system is a laptop with one processor., just so ya know. Finally, I want to recommend to Mr. Holcomb that he upgrade to the latest Kernel erratta by either updating RHN first: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-048.html Then running up2date. Or by upgrading the kernel by hand: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-084.html Johnray My guess is it's a recompiled 2.4.2-2 with modified settings. The 2.4.2-2 we shipped has apm support and works on all machines here. Thanks for the feedback Bero. So Mr. Holcomb, did you make your own kernel? I thought I asked you this before filling this report, but I want to get a response on the record. Also, I remember seeing something funny in your lilo.conf. What was that entry caused by again? Finally, please let me know if the kernel update fixes this issue ASAP so we can close this bug. Thanks a million. J I reinstalled Redhat fresh using the default Laptop configuration. I notice in the output when booting the line: apm: Bios not found. Then apmd is doing the right thing - if you don't have an APM BIOS (or if your APM BIOS is broken), apmd shouldn't start. Assigning to kernel because it might actually be a problem with the kernel not detecting the APM BIOS, but it's much more likely a BIOS bug. This is probably a system with only ACPI, which is not yet supported. Unfortunately, I don't think this is a bug, just a not-yet-ready and thus missing feature. |