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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