ACPI messages in syslog

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Aug 27 20:33:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:18 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Well, I have to say I've had just about enough of ACPI.  This last time 
> it nearly corrupted my entire hard drive.
> 
> Here's my problem:
> 
> For some bizarre reason the newer Fedora versions (from 7 onward), the 
> ACPI implementations refuse to play nice with my CPU fan (or my PS fan, 
> I cannot say which, /other/ than it's a fan).  So, I have posted a 
> couple of times about these errors being logged in syslog and got no 
> answer, so I figure not using ACPI is fine.  It leaves my fans on all 
> the time, but hell, it's just money, right?
> 
> Now the problem is kinda sorta rearing it's ugly head again.  Even with 
> 'noacpi' as a kernel option, I'm still getting thousands of 'ACPI: Can't 
> turn fan device to off' or similar being dumped into syslog after about 
> 4 or 5 hours of this system being on.  At a certain point syslog fills 
> up my hard drive (/var is on /, I never expected this to be a problem) 
> and bombs my system.
> 
> The last time this happened (last night) it corrupted / on my primary 
> HDD and I had to fsck it manually.
> 
> So, after a good therapy session, I'm calm enough to find out the 
> answers to a couple of questions:
> 
> 1.  Is there any way possible to stop ACPI from logging these blasted 
> messages, especially when I have 'noacpi' as a kernel option?
> 
> 2.  If that's not possible, is there anyway to make rsyslog STOP logging 
> at a certain size for /var/log/messages?
> 
> 3.  Is there any other bleeding way around this so I can stop worrying 
> about this silly problem?
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I'm not sure that noacpi is an option...perhaps you mean noacpi=1

you can also boot with the param 'acpi=off' but that is what is known as
the 'big hammer'
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems

Craig




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