Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169248
no ACPI events delivered to /proc/acpi/event
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Fedora/1.5b1-0.fc3 Firefox/1.4 Description of problem: sometimes, ACPI events fail to make it to /proc/acpi/event, or acpi breaks down completely in the kernel(?). This SEEMS to happen particularly after suspend to mem (echo -n mem > /sys/power/state). This is what happens... If I stop the acpi daemon for testing, then start "cat /proc/acpi/event" to watch the messages and then start generating ACPI events, the results are unstable. Sometimes i'll get the events normally. Sometimes, i won't get them at all and yet other times, i'll get the first few events and then no more. I have been able to get things working again by reloading the ac and battery modules, but again, this does not work every time. I guess this problem is related to the major ACPI changes from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12 somewhere. If you don't have all the info, ask and i'll provide! :o) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Resume machine from suspend to memory 2. service acpid stop; cat /proc/acpi/event 3. generate acpi events (un/re-plug power, hit various acpi keys) Actual Results: Sometimes no events will show, sometimes no more than a few. Expected Results: Events should be delivered reliably every time an event is generated. Additional info: My machine is an IBM ThinkPad T30 (2366-JBG), i've built an ibm_acpi module from the source from ibm-acpi.sf.net but the problems happen even without the ibm_acpi module.
Change reproducibility to "some times"...
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Haven't seen this in a while, so it's probably safe to assume that things are fixed now... Especially since ACPI state of FC4 is actually pretty solid right now!