e2fsck dies with signal 11

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:15:32AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:30:23PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> > open("/proc/apm", O_RDONLY)             = 4
> 	...
> > read(4,  <unfinished ...>
> 
> This was caused by e2fsck trying to read from /proc/apm to see whether
> or not your system was running on batteries or not.  /proc/apm exists
> (or the open would have returned an error), but reading from it
> apparently causes a kernel oops.  This is definitely a kernel bug, and
> I suspect can be reproduced by the shell command "cat /proc/apm".
> 
> Recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_APM disabled is probably the most
> expedient answer, since for most systems ACPI is more functional (and
> in some cases, required).  Indeed, the APM code has been sufferring
> progressive bitrot, which probably explains the kernel oops.  You
> could try sending a complaint to LKML if you really need APM
> functionality for your laptop, and for some reason ACPI is not
> sufficent for your needs.

My problem here has vanished, I don't know why.

But why was e2fsck checking APM?
None of the other fs fsck's do, AFAIK.

Best regards
Keld