From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 Description of problem: At system startup or "service apmd start" I get a GPF. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Get laptop Dell Inspiron 2500 2.RedHat 7.2 w/ all updates (as March 5, 2002), kernel 2.4.9-31 3.start-up with apmd enabled or "service apmd start" Actual Results: [root@ics-14 root]# service apmd start Starting up APM daemon: general protection fault: e990 Kernel 2.4.9-31 CPU: 0 EIP: 0050:[<00002ffc>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010046 EIP is at Using_Versions [] 0x2ffb eax: 00000296 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c0231b77 edi: 00000014 ebp: c4e07e7c esp: c4e07e74 ds: 0058 es: 0000 ss: 0018 Process apmd (pid: 11909, stackpage=c4e07000) Stack: 5309518e 00007e7c 00000058 1b770296 7e900050 00000001 530a0000 00000016 00485359 cfe20000 c4e07ef4 c0110a43 00000010 c4e07ef4 00000296 c9130018 00000018 00000000 cfe20000 c4e07f2e c0231b77 ffffffff c4999000 c0110c4f Call Trace: [<c0110a43>] apm_bios_call [kernel] 0x43 [<c0231b77>] .rodata.str1.1 [kernel] 0x5cb2 [<c0110c4f>] apm_get_power_status [kernel] 0x3f [<c0111916>] apm_get_info [kernel] 0x46 [<c0153be5>] proc_file_read [kernel] 0xa5 [<c01367c6>] sys_read [kernel] 0x96 [<c0106f3b>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 Code: Bad EIP value. [FAILED] [root@ics-14 root]# Expected Results: [root@ics-14 root]# service apmd start Starting up APM daemon: [ OK ] [root@ics-14 root]# Additional info:
This is almost certainly a bug in your BIOS. Assigning to kernel so we can blacklist it.
0050:[<00002ffc>] definitly a bios bug. Can you please do the following: wget http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/dmidecode.c gcc dmidecode.c -o dmidecode ./dmidecode | less <check the output> ./dmidecode | mail -s "borked apm" hardwarebugs-list (the last step sends me an email with your bios info, please check if you are comfortable about sending this info in the step before that)
Closing : BIOS issue