> > its not too difficult to get past the panics. > > I guess you talk about: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=6 > 7670&tstart=0 > > well removing the acpi driver might be a workaround > to mask the underlaying problem, > however looking at the bugs mentioned: > > 6723556 gnome does not track changes in battery > level > > it started with build 93, build93 works fine for me > and the fix in that bug is entierely > in HAL daemon. hard to believe its causing the DDI > panics with bad trap. > > the comments dont mention any panics at boot either > and its P3, if > this is really causing the panics, which I doubt, it > should be P1. > > 6728564 Sony Vaio laptop hangs in install on b90 and > higher > > as the subject sais, build90....so cant be this bug > either. > > so there is something else rotten that gets masked by > the workaround > which is hard to use for new installs anyways from > DVD. > > thanks > frankB
Thanks for the link. I followed it and noticed there was an updated version of hald mentioned on one of them. # gzip -d hald.gz # cp hald /usr/lib/hal # # svcadm restart hal # digest -a md5 /usr/lib/hal 4ef7af841890fde2a57b2a13031c9856 anyway, installing that one seems to be an improvement. After I restarted hal, it seems to have realised the battery was not fully charged, but still thought it was on mains power. I've just stopped hal and then started it (not restarted) and it seems to have worked out I am now running on battry power and is decrementing its estimate of percentage left. But I am not in a position to check it on mains just now. I did hit an issue in b93 of a panic. I then put the DVD in again, and it pacicked again. I decided to write a new DVD, just in case, and it solved it. So I put the problem down to a problem writing the DVD, although there were no errors reported, I did not verify the image. Could it be this problem is causing intermittand panics? In the case of b94, I've tried a couple of DVDs and the panics were 100% repeatable. Perhaps there is a more urgent issue that needs resolving if this is causing panics, rather than just missing battery information. This message posted from opensolaris.org
