Re: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-xand up

[David Ford]

run a watch -n 1 'cat /proc.../status' and it'll happen really quick, on 
my machine it happens inside 15 minutes.  my notebook is a dell inpsiron 
8200.

Stuart Young wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:08 pm, Jason Munro wrote:
>  
>
> > Same here on a Toshiba 1410-s173 noteboook:
> >
> > [logger] ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined
> > [kernel] ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BUFF] in namespace,
> >         AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> >
> > I don't think it's happened in less than 24 hours of uptime, during which
> > everything is good. I have been using suspend to ram daily if that matters
> > (echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep).
> >
> > Linux version 2.6.3-wolk1.0 (root@jackass) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040217
> > (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3, propolice-3.3-7)) #1 Thu Feb 26 16:18:24 CST 2004
> >    
>
> Happened once to me. I actually thought my battery was dying, so I went into 
> the BIOS and did a battery cycle (full discharge). Hasn't come back since, 
> but I'd guess that was a co-incidence. Probably needed it anyway.
>
> Feb 21 18:32:10 kosh kernel:     ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [NACH] in 
> namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> Feb 21 18:32:10 kosh kernel:     ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed 
> [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node c7f88ba0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
>
> Was running 2.6.3 (vanilla) at the time. Uptime at this point (first mention 
> in logs) was ~1 day, 1 hour & 15 mins. Probably haven't had >24 hrs uptime 
> since then. Will have this weekend (for testing).
>
> Laptop is an Asus L7300/L7200 (PIII-600 on 440MX chipset) with the latest 
> BIOS. Currently running 2.6.4-rc2 vanilla.
>  
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