Bug in 6.1 acpi?

[Drew Sanford]

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.
>
> This server is in production, so any advice would be greatly apppreciated.
>
>   

James,
When you say power events, what exactly are we talking about here? Does 
the system just shut down, does it power down cleanly, or is it 
spontaneously rebooting?