boot hanging

boot hanging

[Wesley T Allen]

Hi,
	Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question; if I'm off-base
could someone point me in the right direction?

	I have an hp pavilion laptop (an n5000 series, build-to-order) and have
had problems with acpi under linux.  in the 2.4.x series the system
would hang with an error "keventd not started" every now and again.  I
would let it sit for a couple of seconds (making sure the hd had spun
down), and then I'd reboot.  Sometimes I would have to do this a couple
of times, but it was no big deal.
	I compiled 2.6.0 on my own when it came out (because the acpi support
was better), and I could NEVER get it to boot.  So I gave up for a
while, until I got Mandrake 10.0 community installed on my laptop.  The
kernel is 2.6.3 and I just can't get the thing to boot with acpi enabled
at all (well, once in about 50 attempts I think).  This is a bit of a
bummer, considering that I can't get usb devices to work with my laptop
w/o acpi enabled!  Does anyone have a workaround?  And what other
information would be helpful in troubleshooting?

Thanks gang,  one of the things I love about OSS is that the developers
are people you can talk to, and I end up learning how to help the
development process AND other users.

Wes



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Re: boot hanging

[Len Brown]

pci=noacpi helps?

if so, it is an ACPI interrupt configuration bug (which you're
encouraged to file on bugzilla.kernel.org;-)

thanks,
-Len

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:08, Wesley T Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question; if I'm off-base
> could someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> 	I have an hp pavilion laptop (an n5000 series, build-to-order) and have
> had problems with acpi under linux.  in the 2.4.x series the system
> would hang with an error "keventd not started" every now and again.  I
> would let it sit for a couple of seconds (making sure the hd had spun
> down), and then I'd reboot.  Sometimes I would have to do this a couple
> of times, but it was no big deal.
> 	I compiled 2.6.0 on my own when it came out (because the acpi support
> was better), and I could NEVER get it to boot.  So I gave up for a
> while, until I got Mandrake 10.0 community installed on my laptop.  The
> kernel is 2.6.3 and I just can't get the thing to boot with acpi enabled
> at all (well, once in about 50 attempts I think).  This is a bit of a
> bummer, considering that I can't get usb devices to work with my laptop
> w/o acpi enabled!  Does anyone have a workaround?  And what other
> information would be helpful in troubleshooting?
> 
> Thanks gang,  one of the things I love about OSS is that the developers
> are people you can talk to, and I end up learning how to help the
> development process AND other users.
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
> 
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Re: boot hanging

[Wesley T Allen]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 02:05, Len Brown wrote:
> pci=noacpi helps?

Nope.  I don't get the "keventd" message anymore but the kernel hangs
one line earlier when setting the irq to 9.

On next boot I'll get the exact wording and put it in an e-mail; I can't
find it in the logs right now.

> 
> if so, it is an ACPI interrupt configuration bug (which you're
> encouraged to file on bugzilla.kernel.org;-)
> 
> thanks,
> -Len
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:08, Wesley T Allen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question; if I'm off-base
> > could someone point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > 	I have an hp pavilion laptop (an n5000 series, build-to-order) and have
> > had problems with acpi under linux.  in the 2.4.x series the system
> > would hang with an error "keventd not started" every now and again.  I
> > would let it sit for a couple of seconds (making sure the hd had spun
> > down), and then I'd reboot.  Sometimes I would have to do this a couple
> > of times, but it was no big deal.
> > 	I compiled 2.6.0 on my own when it came out (because the acpi support
> > was better), and I could NEVER get it to boot.  So I gave up for a
> > while, until I got Mandrake 10.0 community installed on my laptop.  The
> > kernel is 2.6.3 and I just can't get the thing to boot with acpi enabled
> > at all (well, once in about 50 attempts I think).  This is a bit of a
> > bummer, considering that I can't get usb devices to work with my laptop
> > w/o acpi enabled!  Does anyone have a workaround?  And what other
> > information would be helpful in troubleshooting?
> > 
> > Thanks gang,  one of the things I love about OSS is that the developers
> > are people you can talk to, and I end up learning how to help the
> > development process AND other users.
> > 
> > Wes
> > 
> > 
> > 
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