Automatic reboot in kernel 2.6.7-1.467
Omar Kilani
omar at tinysofa.org
Wed Jul 7 16:32:40 UTC 2004
Dave, All,
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 00:27, David Chambers wrote:
>
>> Thank you Omar! - I had totally not thought of ACPI. Adding
>> acpi=off to boot fixes the problem completely.
>>
>> Given the problems which ACPI seems to be causing - including
>> people's problems in FC2 - wouldn't it be a good idea to default it
>> to "off" until it behaves a bit better? I realize that the dev
>> kernels are just that, but to have the entire system not boot on a
>> whim of ACPI's strikes me as a bit counterproductive... (my $0.02,
>> refundable upon request :-)
>
>
> This should be fixed properly in the next kernel that Arjan pushes
> out. Binary search on patches since the last working kernel and first
> broken one took a while, but it turned out to be something (sort of)
> trivial.
Just out of interest, what was this sort of trivial something? :)
Oh, and has the fix for said something been upstreamed?
> PS: Your mail client isn't wrapping lines correctly.
>
> Dave
Regards,
Omar
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