From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 22 18:21:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD2516A407 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: from richard2.pil.net (mail.pil.net [207.7.198.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD57D43D55 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:21:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 70481 invoked by uid 1825); 22 Sep 2006 18:21:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Sep 2006 18:21:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:21:37 -0400 (EDT) From: up@3.am X-X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Drew Sanford In-Reply-To: <4514280A.5060702@wilderness.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in 6.1 acpi? X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:21:40 -0000 On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Drew Sanford wrote: > up@3.am wrote: > > (Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed) > > > > I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious. > > Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having what > > appear to be power events every 13-40 hours or so. No errors or panic > > messages or core dumps. > > > > The system has dual power supplies and was rock stable running 4.X. The > > problem only started occuring after upgrading to 6.1-STABLE. Could it be > > related to this DMESG? : > > > > acpi0: on motherboard > > acpi0: Power Button (fixed) > > acpi: bad write to port 0x070 (8), val 0x43 > > acpi: bad read from port 0x071 (8) > > > > The hardware is an Intel L440GX+ MB with dual 1Ghz CPUs with SMP (I tried > > a kernel without SMP, but it didn't help), 1GB ECC RAM, 1GB Swap, Adaptec > > 2100 SCSI RAID level 1. It apppears to be lightly loaded in terms of CPU > > and RAM. > > > > This server is in production, so any advice would be greatly apppreciated. > > > > > > James, > When you say power events, what exactly are we talking about here? Does > the system just shut down, does it power down cleanly, or is it > spontaneously rebooting? Spontaneously rebooting. NOT cleanly, but so far, it has come back up every time. I'm not sure how high the risk is for serious file system damage in this situation, but it sure makes me nervous. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am =========================================================================