[ltp] My Bad - ibm_acpi causes system freeze on startup on T42p

[morpheus]

Well, I commented out my entire rc.local, and I still can't boot into X.
Nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log either.
So, probably not an ibm_acpi problem, though I still want to know why it
doesn't see the dock device.
-m

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 23:22 -0500, morpheus wrote:
> I cannot boot my system into runlevel 5 and I think ibm_acpi may be the
> problem.  Everything runs fine and modules/services start loading...then
> I get near the end of my services (cups-config-daemon) and the computer
> freezes.
> Well, at least it seems to.  The screen freezes.  The mouse freezes.
> When I press CTRL-ALT-F1 for a console, nothing happens.
> However, my ibm_acpi events are working...FnF7 turns off the WLAN, Fn-F5
> puts into sleep mode, etc.  Also, CTRL-ALT-DEL does a graceful restart.
> If I restart into single user mode and look at /var/log/messages, I see:
> 
> Dec 16 22:52:29 enormousroom kernel: ibm_acpi: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
> v0.8
> Dec 16 22:52:29 enormousroom kernel: ibm_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
> Dec 16 22:52:29 enormousroom kernel: ibm_acpi: dock device not present
> Dec 16 22:52:29 enormousroom kernel: Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
> 
> These are the last messages before I press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.  The
> funny thing is it says "dock device not present" but my machine is
> installed in a dock.
> 
> Of course, that Non-volatile memory driver could be the problem, I think
> it's used by the ThinkPadButtons (tpb) utility.  But I suspect ibm_acpi
> because it's the most recent thing I added to the system and all was
> working fine before then.  Also, this "dock device not present" is
> troubling.  /var/log/acpid shows no errors.
> 
> BTW, I'm on Fedora Core 3, Kernel 2.6.9-1.667
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -m
>