Bug 326041

Summary:	Messages appear in /var/log/messages every few seconds; kernel module not loaded
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Anderson <david>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	chris.brown, wtogami
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Fixed In Version:	2.6.23.15-80.fc7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description David Anderson 2007-10-10 09:53:22 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a Dell Inspiron 1501. This error message appears in /var/log/messages 
every 6 seconds:

Oct 10 10:39:35 hodge NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch power: 
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message
is:    Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that 
dcdbas driver is properly loaded.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager 0.6.5-7.fc7
hal 0.5.9-8.fc7

If I do "/sbin/modprobe dcdbas", the errors stop. I presume that something 
ought to be doing that automatically, but isn't?

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2007-10-10 16:16:28 UTC

kernel folks; any idea why dcdbas isn't getting auto-loaded?

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2007-10-10 23:29:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> kernel folks; any idea why dcdbas isn't getting auto-loaded?

There doesn't seem to be anything that would tell the system to load it. (It
doesn't contain a list of devices that it applies too.)

Comment 3 Christopher Brown 2008-01-14 18:35:25 UTC

Hello,

I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to
isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage

I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can.

There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if
you are still having problems with the latest kernel?

If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a
few days if there is no additional information lodged.

Comment 4 David Anderson 2008-01-22 10:44:14 UTC

I think that there was some upstream work on getting the relevant module 
loaded automatically. I worked round the problem for the meanwhile with a line 
in rc.local.

Comment 5 Christopher Brown 2008-01-22 14:29:14 UTC

Thanks for the update David. Do you have the line that you added as a workaround
for anyone else with the same issue - I'm guessing:

/sbin/modprobe dcdbas

or something similar?

Are you still having this issue with the line commented out?

Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2008-01-22 17:49:47 UTC

This was fixed in Fedora 8 (bug 248257) but not in F7.

Fixed in F7 kernel 2.6.23.14-65.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-02-11 03:33:28 UTC

kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-02-11 22:38:15 UTC

kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.