Description:

kernel .29 causes kernel panic. I'd love to provide a log but when it happens I have: 1. no Input at all. this includes the power button. 2. AC *and* battery need to be removed to get that damn thing off. Of course that isnt particularly helpful to get a log.

However, lucky me I was on a vc when it happened and thourougly reading the kernel message there whilst ignoring the blinking leds lead to the following result:

as it seems acpi_battery_full_state fails for some reason. this would explain the seemingly random panics as well.

battery full > acpi fails > panic!

on this occasion i'd like to point out that that the changelog for the kernel build wasnt very helpful here, and this is the reason the bug is here and not upstream. I have no idea if or not some work was done on kernel compilation.

Additional info:
Name : kernel26
Version : 2.6.29.4-1
kernel: Linux kirin 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 07:06:02 UTC 2009 i686 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

note: i had the same trouble with 2.6.29.3

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)
00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

Steps to reproduce: wait until battery is fully charged and hope for a kernel panic. ensure you are not using X. kernel panic might let LED blink in beautiful patterns

to be honest I doubt anyone else has that trouble. feel free to close/delete that bug then