ACPIDAEMON.EXE causes hard lockup of system when battery is missing or dead

[eco]

From: Alex Taylor

source: ​http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2319

On the laptop that I use for testing ACPI, the battery has died and is no longer functional.

Now, whenever ACPIDAEMON.EXE is started on that system (whether from CONFIG.SYS, STARTUP.CMD, or run manually from a prompt) it instantly causes the entire system to lock up, forcing me to reboot.

This also occurs if I remove the battery entirely.

[pasha]

acpi log + output from AcpiBattery?

[eco]

Alex Taylor:

attached

[ecsnl]

Is this somehow related to ticket 320 ? Pasha could you provide some inside ?

[pasha]

I don't see message from apm.add in log, check pls string basedev=apm.add in config.sys

[ataylor]

ACPI.LOG (updated: with APM.ADD enabled)

[ataylor]

Sorry, my mistake. (I forgot to reenable some statements.)

Please see the updated ACPI.LOG file.

[pasha]

Ok. I need time for repeat it in my laptop

[pasha]

Sorry, I can't repeat it at my laptop. You need, remming run AcpiDaemon, after boot open full screen OS/2 session, run AcpiDaemon in it, send to me photo of screen. acpi.psd must be from debug directory

[ataylor]

Photo of screen hung on acpidaemon execution (using acpidbg.psd)

[ataylor]

Ok, attached photo. The system hung completely (as usual) as soon as the message displayed.

[pasha]

all this log is log with remove/bad battery?

[ataylor]

All this is with the bad battery.

[ecsnl]

To get a grip on this problem I asked Alex to create a memory dump. There is 512 MB of RAM in this machine, it has 8 MB taken of for shared video memory. He created a 900 MB FAT partition to create the dump file. When the acpideamon is loaded and the trapdump statement is the config.sys it goes into a loop that lasts for ever.

After having stopped the memory dump I suggested to him to NOT load the acpideamon the system performed a memory dump within about 60 seconds.

The interesting thing this is the exact same problem I had when creating a memory dump for ticket 320! It would also just sit in a loop! Seems when the acpideamon loads it corrupts something real bad somehow ?

Seems ticket 320 and 344 are maybe even closer related then I was thinking.

Steve ?

[eco]

e-co:

Pasha:

it's necessary grab log via com-port

install debug kernel, debug ACPI, setup ACPI (ACPI FAQ -> /O)

or

trapdump

[pasha]

Please download experimental ACPI build from Mensys site:

• Experimental build for you:

ACPI-APIC-BAT.ZIP

• Read instructions: ​http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=testcase

[ataylor]

Sorry for the delay. My software subscription seems to have expired so I haven't managed to get the file yet.

Incidentally: I replaced the dying LCD on this laptop and ever since then I can't recreate the problem. -_-;;

[pasha]

Please download experimental ACPI build from Mensys site:

• Experimental build for you:

ACPI315PRE.ZIP

• Read instructions: ​http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=testcase

[ataylor]

Replying to pasha:

• Experimental build for you:

ACPI315PRE.ZIP

OK, downloaded and installed. It loads and runs successfully.

Anything in particular I should test for?

[pasha]

Nothing. In near time will be next version.

[David Azarewicz]

This does not apply to the new daemon.