Bug in 6.1 acpi?

[up at 3.am]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:

> [Please don't cross post]
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:03:37PM -0400, up at 3.am wrote:
> >
> > (Please respond directly, as I am not subscribed)
> >
> > I've asked about this error message before, but this has gotten serious.
> > Not sure if it's related, but this server keeps spontaneously having what
> > appear to be power events every 13-40 hours or so.  No errors or panic
> > messages or core dumps.
> >
> > The system has dual power supplies and was rock stable running 4.X.  The
> > problem only started occuring after upgrading to 6.1-STABLE.  Could it be
> > related to this DMESG? :
> >
> > acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
> > acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> > acpi: bad write to port 0x070 (8), val 0x43
> > acpi: bad read from port 0x071 (8)
> >
> > The hardware is an Intel L440GX+ MB with dual 1Ghz CPUs with SMP (I tried
> > a kernel without SMP, but it didn't help), 1GB ECC RAM, 1GB Swap, Adaptec
> > 2100 SCSI RAID level 1.  It apppears to be lightly loaded in terms of CPU
> > and RAM.
>
> Have you verified that you're running with the latest BIOS?  On a system
> that old, there's a decent chance the ACPI implementation is buggy.
> Have you tried running with ACPI disabled?

Yes, I did...still had the same problem.

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