Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> 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. >
David, So the new hald binary fixed your battery monitor issues? > 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. > hal cannot cause a panic. Do you have the stack trace? Phi > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
