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A.I. BOT

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Registered: 2007-04-01

Posts: 88

ACPID stops working ...

I'v had acpid working on my laptop for a long time now, everyday it was fine when closing the lid and blanking my screen, etc. But all of a sudden its deciding not to work.

sudo tail /var/log/acpid
[Wed Mar 12 04:19:46 2008] starting up
[Wed Mar 12 04:19:46 2008] 1 rule loaded
[Wed Mar 12 04:20:46 2008] exiting
[Wed Mar 12 04:22:09 2008] starting up
[Wed Mar 12 04:22:09 2008] 1 rule loaded
[Wed Mar 12 04:27:31 2008] exiting

It doesnt seem to accept events either, ie: recognize that I have my lid closed. It claims "can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy".

Any insight to this?

Thanks.

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 454

Re: ACPID stops working ...

Have you updated your kernel? Does /proc/acpi/event exist?
What does "lsof /proc/acpi/event" say?

A.I. BOT

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Registered: 2007-04-01

Posts: 88

Re: ACPID stops working ...

[tyler@tyler-laptop ~]$ sudo lsof /proc/acpi/event
COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF       NODE NAME
acpid   3632 root    3r   REG    0,3        0 4026531935 /proc/acpi/event

I don't believe my kernel was updated recently. The file seem to exists as lsof says.

Last edited by A.I. BOT (2008-04-27 18:17:26)

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 454

Re: ACPID stops working ...

it seems that it's running. lsof in particular says that the /proc/acpi/event file is opened by process acpid (pid 3632)