Bug 428204

Summary:	cpuspeed status reports 'cpuspeed dead but subsys locked'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Geoff Gustafson <grgustaf>
Component:	kernel-utils	Assignee:	Jarod Wilson <jarod>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4.6	CC:	jane.lv, jvillalo, youquan.song
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Description Geoff Gustafson 2008-01-09 21:56:31 UTC

After installing RHEL4.6 on a Bensley/ClovertownG0 SDV, the first time I try to
run "service cpuspeed status" it reports "cpuspeed dead but subsys locked". I
can confirm there is a /var/lock/subsys/cpuspeed file present but no
/var/run/cpuspeed.pid.

I saw this after installing both x86_64 and i386 versions.

I am able to run "service cpuspeed stop" and "service cpuspeed start" and it
corrects itself.

After that, I do _not_ see the problem again on reboot.

Comment 1 Geoff Gustafson 2008-01-10 22:07:05 UTC

Just reproduced the same issue on a radically different mobile Montevina SDV. So
I think this is probably a fairly generic problem with RHEL4.6.

Comment 2 Jarod Wilson 2008-02-14 20:06:01 UTC

Hrm, been unable to reproduce this as of yet, but then I've only tried on two
systems, and one of them doesn't support freq scaling at all (which I didn't
realize until after installing, of course). If you can reproduce this again, can
you grab me /var/log/messages and dmesg output?

Oh, hrm, just noticed that I was doing 4.7 installs too, not 4.6... I don't
think cpuspeed in the 4.7 trees has changed yet though. Could be kernel-related
too though. Ugh. Will try again with 4.6 myself too.

Comment 3 Jarod Wilson 2008-02-19 21:25:02 UTC

Just installed 4.6 on a box, but apparently, not even the newest rhel4 beta
kernel supports freq scaling on this box (it works in rhel5 and fedora). I lose
again...

Comment 4 Geoff Gustafson 2008-05-21 19:48:32 UTC

I haven't noticed this for a while, I'll try to keep my eyes open the next time
I do a 4.6/4.7 install. Maybe John or I can try doing a 4.7 install on the
Montevina and perhaps Bensley.

Comment 5 Jarod Wilson 2008-08-21 13:48:12 UTC

Geoff and/or John, have either of you been able to reproduce this problem w/4.7?

Comment 6 Jarod Wilson 2009-04-15 21:07:45 UTC

Since we've apparently not been able to hit this in over a year, I'm going to just go ahead and close it out.