FS#17488 : [cpufreqd] crashes upon start when 2nd battery is present

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FS#17488 - [cpufreqd] crashes upon start when 2nd battery is present

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Sunday, 13 December 2009, 14:26 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 June 2010, 13:01 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Extra
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

I'm running Archlinux i686 on an IBM Thinkpad X31 with an UltraBase X3 (which includes a second battery). I do have enabled the testing repo on my system (shouldn't be relevant in this case though), and I've installed all the latest package versions from the repositories, so I've got installed extra/cpufreqd 2.3.4-2.

When I'm using the UltraBase with the 2nd battery, cpufreqd crashes upon start, with dmesg messages like these:

cpufreqd[2979]: segfault at 0 ip b6dc6dd1 sp bf9389c0 error 4 in cpufreqd_acpi.so[b6dc4000+5000]

or

cpufreqd[3002]: segfault at 0 ip b6f57dd1 sp bf932540 error 4 in cpufreqd_acpi.so[b6f55000+5000]

I've reported this already as a bug to the cpufreqd guys, however they say that "this bug has been
fixed ages ago", and that I should "get Archlinux to package the latest cpufreqd version":
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2913400&group_id=58904&atid=489239

I've made me a cpufreqd version from GIT now, which is indeed working flawlessly. Would it be possible to include the relevant patch (unfortunately I don't know which one that is) from cpufreqd GIT until they release a new cpufreqd version?

I've attached the PKGBUILD I've been using to create the GIT package for reference.