FC4 - smartd and NFS locking Failed on startup

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:05:51PM -0700, Bisi wrote:
 > On startup the following demons failed:
 > 
 > smartd

If you have SATA disks, this is known.

 > NFS locking

need more info. File a bug in bugzilla with any relevant
info from /var/log/messages

 > In addition, I also get ACPI BIOS age (2000) fails
 > cutoff, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI. 

As it says, your BIOS is really old. The ACPI implementations
from that era were frankly, crap. The ACPI code in the kernel
refuses to run them unless you boot with acpi=force.

 > Finally, on startup I also get the following messages:
 > agpgart = Unable to determine aperture size.

need the exact complete messages from 1-2 lines around that message.
File another bug in bugzilla with the output of dmesg and lspci

		Dave