Re: kacpid problems

Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi
2004-11-08T03:18:22Z

* Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs-gKC9iF2I70U@public.gmane.org> [2004-11-08 03:48:59 +0100]:

> > Could you verify if killing kacpid can make the thing better?
> This just happened to me again. I did /etc/init.d/acpid stop, and it
> did, but issuing halt left me with the acpi_power_off called message.
> I think some memory corruption may happen in kernel space, or it is just
> ACPI failing for some reason.
OK, just happened again, so update: I did /etc/init.d/acpid stop; but
as I saw CPU usage went to half kernel space, half user space. But(!)
now I can confirm that kacpid with pid 5 stuck in a D state, tried to do
something, but the box was so crawling that I chose to pull out the cord
instead.

HTH,
Laszlo