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FS#2876 - battery status stopped working

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Saturday, 25 June 2005, 20:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

sudenly and all of a sudden, the gnome battery status stopped working. It says that:

Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running.

Also, I get this when I try to load acpid:

[root@lc2430 eugenia]# /etc/rc.d/acpid start
:: Starting acpid [BUSY] acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy [FAIL]
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Sunday, 03 July 2005, 22:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Solution is to start acpid before hal/dbus in rc.conf
Comment by Vince W. (viniosity) - Saturday, 25 June 2005, 21:28 GMT
I'm having this same error too. Started seeing in on June 24th.. I was doing a beagle install but it seems unrelated to this.
Comment by Kevin Williams (k-dub) - Sunday, 26 June 2005, 04:32 GMT
Same error here. Some recent update perhaps? Hal?

[me@mypc ~]# find /var/cache/pacman/pkg -atime 0
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/clamav-0.86-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/dbus-0.33-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/hal-0.5.2-3.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-media-2.10.2-2.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-themes-2.10.2-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-utils-2.10.1-4.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/totem-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-3.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebase-3.4.1-2.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libksba-0.9.11-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-volume-manager-1.2.2-2.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.9-2.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libcdaudio-0.99.12-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/vlc-0.8.1-6.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/nautilus-cd-burner-2.10.2-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libgsf-1.12.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libgtop-2.10.2-1.pkg.tar.gz
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/sudo-1.6.8-7.pkg.tar.gz
[me@mypc ~]#
Comment by Fabian Juenemann (Fabian) - Sunday, 26 June 2005, 09:56 GMT
Same error here, too.

I think it has something to do with the updates for Hal und Dbus.

A few minutes before i noticed the acpid-problem i updated my system using "pacman -Syu" and the following packages were updated:

dbus, hal, gnome-vfs, gnome-volume-properties, hal-device-manager, ivman, k3b, kdebase, vlc
Comment by Fabian Juenemann (Fabian) - Sunday, 26 June 2005, 11:07 GMT
I just edited my /etc/rc.conf.

The acpid-daemon should be started before dbus und hal

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hotplug !pcmcia network netfs ntpd crond acpid dbus hal cups !acpid mdns clamav !privoxy kdm)

After the next reboot acpid started just fine.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 26 June 2005, 13:10 GMT
Seems logical, hal supports ACPI nowadays.

I don't think there's another solution than reversing hal and acpid in the daemons array. Another thing I can think of is getting rid of the gnome battery applet and replace it with a hal/dbus based one that also is able to read out battery status from your wireless mouse, which is even better.
Comment by Kevin Williams (k-dub) - Monday, 27 June 2005, 00:10 GMT
Changing the /etc/rc.conf file worked for me also.

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