From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When the computer starts up, even if acpid is not started via /etc/services, I get 100% CPU usage divided between hald and acpid (about 66% by hald and 33% by kacpid). This persists until I have killed these processes. I tried turning off acpid, hald, and apmd, but this has not kept this problem from occurring. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): acpid-1.0.4-1, kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot system. 2.Look at output of top once system has finished booting. 3.See giant cpu usage. Actual Results: Whenever the system boots, this happens. Expected Results: cpu usage should not be 100% after the system has finished booting. Additional info:
Is this a laptop? I wonder if it's polling the battery. Does booting with acpi_serialize help ?
I booted with acpi_serialize, and that seemed to make my problem go away. Thanks a lot! Yes, this is on a laptop (Gateway 450ROG). Is the fix to this problem to boot with acpi_serialize from now on, or is there something else I should be doing instead?
"I'm sorry, Dave..." Looks like I misspoke in my earlier comment. I have now determined the following: I turned hald and apmd off and acpid on. Turning hald off gets rid of the CPU usage problem. When hald is running (even if acpid isn't), acpi_serialize does *not* stop the CPU usage problem. So, my rather primitive guess is that there's some bad interaction going on between the hal daemon and kacpid. I've got hal-0.5.2-2. So, for now, my CPU usage problem is fixed, although I'm not sure why hal is misbehaving. Thanks for your help!
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
I've upgraded to 2.6.15, and I can't seem to duplicate this problem anymore. So, at least from my standpoint, it's fixed. Good job!