Fedora 8 irqbalance fails on shutdown

[Greg Sieranski]

Bob wrote:
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>   
>> Greg Sieranski wrote:
>>     
>>> I recently did a fresh install of F8(2.6.23.1-49) on my T60p and now 
>>> on shutdown I always seem to get a irqbalance: failed message. I did 
>>> not have any problems with this when I ran F7. Does anyone know of any 
>>> issues involving irqbalance? Is there a way for me to find out why it 
>>> is failing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> gs
>>>
>>>       
>>     No help but I too see the same thing. So your not the only one.
>>
>>     
>
> Does your machine have dual processors or a duo core processor?  Irqbalance balances interrupts between multiple processors.  If you do not have multiple processors just diable it in Services and you will not see the error anymore.  
>
> I am thinking that the T60P does have a duo core processor, if that is the case you probably should report it in Bugzilla...
>
> Bob
>
>   
It is a Core2 Duo 2.33GHz processor. I will file a report with bugzilla.