kern/77805: Boot hangs with ACPI enabled

Ron Johnson rjohns44 at comcast.net
Sat Mar 5 18:30:09 PST 2005


On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 19:05 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:

> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Any help would be appreciated! dmesg output and ASL are in the bug
> > report.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77805
> > 
> > With ACPI enabled, boot fails at "hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 -> C3". This
> > statement is not in sysctl.conf or loader.conf and appears to be changed
> > automatically. No issue in all previous 5.X versions. 5.3-STABLE
> > downloaded from CVS on 2/19/2005 around 3pm EST.
> 
> You want to change the performance/economy settings in rc.conf.  Man 5 
> rc.conf
> 
> The defaults were changed between 5.2.1 and 5.3:
> 
> src/etc/defaults/rc.conf:revision 1.206
> date: 2004/05/29 04:52:37;  author: njl;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
> Throw the switch and enable use of the lowest idle states while online in
> addition to offline.  This can be overridden in /etc/rc.conf if it causes
> trouble although this has been stable since 2003/12.
> 
> I have no idea why C3 is unstable on your machine.  Please try 
> overriding this with something like this and see if it helps:
> 
> performance_cx_state=HIGH
> economy_cx_state=HIGH
> 

It didn't help. Still hangs at the same point. It did output new error
messages below.

Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: ACPI-0361: *** Error: Thread 29 cannot
release Mutex [MUT0] acquired by thread 8
Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_SB_.PCI0.PIB_.EC0_.SMRD] (Node 0xc14653e0), AE_AML_NOT_OWNER
Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_SB_.BAT1.UPBI] (Node 0xc13ab2c0), AE_AML_NOT_OWNER
Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_SB_.BAT1.SEBI] (Node 0xc13ab200), AE_AML_NOT_OWNER
Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution
failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node 0xc13ab8a0), AE_AML_NOT_OWNER
Feb 27 18:08:13 armada kernel: acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready
yet)
Feb 27 18:08:16 armada last message repeated 5 times
Feb 27 18:08:16 armada syslogd: exiting on signal 15

This does seem similar to the "Laptop and ACPI" thread
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2005-March/001325.html.
Although my clock speed is reported correctly without ACPI.



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