Bug 503787 - acpid init script fails to start during boot; "can't open /proc/acpi/event"
Summary: acpid init script fails to start during boot; "can't open /proc/acpi/event"
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 503177
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: acpid
Version: 5.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Zdenek Prikryl
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-02 17:59 UTC by Suzanne Hillman
Modified: 2009-06-03 07:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-03 07:08:30 UTC
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Description Suzanne Hillman 2009-06-02 17:59:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
Init script for acpid fails to start during boot, as well as if run by hand, with the error: "acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.4-7.el5_3.1

How reproducible:
Always, at least on this machine

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "service acpid start"
  
Actual results:
Error as per above.

Expected results:
No error. Should just work like it used to.

Additional info:
Regression. At least, I've never seen this happen on boot before.
Comment 1 Zdenek Prikryl 2009-06-03 06:51:35 UTC 
The problem is that hal starts earlier then acpid. So, when the pc runs, stop hal, restart acpid and start hal.

$ service haldaemon stop
$ service acpid restart
$ service haldaemon start
Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2009-06-03 07:08:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 503177 ***
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