ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and up

ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and up

[David Ford]

powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status

powerix root # dmesg -c
    ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
    ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] 
(Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS

powerix root # uname -r
2.6.4-rc1

This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something.  Some while after 
reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery information 
gets munged.

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

[Jason Munro]

On 12:29 pm Mar 4 David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> wrote:
> powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:                 yes
> ERROR: Unable to read battery status
>
> powerix root # dmesg -c
>     ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace,
> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS     ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed
> [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
>
> powerix root # uname -r
> 2.6.4-rc1
>
> This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something.  Some while
> after reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery
> information gets munged.

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

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

[Stuart Young]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:08 pm, Jason Munro wrote:
> On 12:29 pm Mar 4 David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> wrote:
> > powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> > present:                 yes
> > ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> >
> > powerix root # dmesg -c
> >     ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace,
> > AE_ALREADY_EXISTS     ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed
> > [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> >
> > powerix root # uname -r
> > 2.6.4-rc1
> >
> > This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something.  Some while
> > after reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery
> > information gets munged.
>
> 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.

Re: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and 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.
>  
>

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

[Stuart Young]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:26 pm, David Ford wrote:
> 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.

Tried it as soon as you sent me a reply using:
 watch -n 1 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state'

...and it just failed then, using 2.6.4-rc2 still.

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

[Jeff Chua]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Stuart Young wrote:

> ...and it just failed then, using 2.6.4-rc2 still.

have you tried applying patch from ...

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.4/
acpi-20040220-2.6.4.diff.bz2


I'm on IBM X30, linux 2.6.4-rc2. No problem.


# uptime
 13:02:07 up  3:31,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08

# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          unknown
present rate:            0 mW
remaining capacity:      31780 mWh
present voltage:         12419 mV



Jeff.

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

[Jason Munro]

On 11:02 pm Mar 4 Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Stuart Young wrote:
>
> >  ...and it just failed then, using 2.6.4-rc2 still.

root@jackass /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1# watch -n 1 'cat ./state'

Over 30 minutes running and still looks fine. I use the GKACPI Gkrellm
plugin which polls the battery status every 30 seconds I beleive. Since
this started I have gone up to 2 + days uptime without it being triggered,
but sometimes its less.

> have you tried applying patch from ...
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release
> /2.6.4/
> acpi-20040220-2.6.4.diff.bz2

The 2.6.3 patch from the same release day does not apply cleanly with the
wolk patchset in place :/ I will try the latest with this patch and see
what happens.


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

[John M Flinchbaugh]

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> > have you tried applying patch from ...
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release
> > /2.6.4/
> > acpi-20040220-2.6.4.diff.bz2

this patch did not help on my dell inspiron 3800.  the battery
status worked with 2.6.0, but it's been broken in the past
couple versions.  same as others were seeing:
ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._BST]
(Node d7fc7ba0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS

i'm trying 2.6.4-rc2 with this acpi patch.
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Re: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x and up

[Stuart Young]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:02 pm, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Stuart Young wrote:
> > ...and it just failed then, using 2.6.4-rc2 still.
>
> have you tried applying patch from ...
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.
>4/ acpi-20040220-2.6.4.diff.bz2
>
>
> I'm on IBM X30, linux 2.6.4-rc2. No problem.
>
>
> # uptime
>  13:02:07 up  3:31,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08
>
> # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:                 yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:          unknown
> present rate:            0 mW
> remaining capacity:      31780 mWh
> present voltage:         12419 mV

Same failure. Works for 15-20 mins, then it stops reporting anything past the 
battery being present.

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

[Charles Bueche]

Hi,

I have had this problem (or at least very similar) since 2.6.0. the
-test worked fine.

I run 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 on a Dell Inspiron 8600

Charles

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:29:01 -0500
David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> wrote:

> powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:                 yes
> ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> 
> powerix root # dmesg -c
>     ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace,
>     AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed
>     [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] 
> (Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> 
> powerix root # uname -r
> 2.6.4-rc1
> 
> This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something.  Some while
> after reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery
> information gets munged.