Arch Linux

fijam

Member

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 244

Website

[workaround] log filling up with "ACPI group/action undefined"

I use Arch with a HP 510 notebook and my /var/log/messages.log is filled up with:

Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:15:36 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:06 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:07 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:07 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054
Aug 19 14:16:07 hp510 logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / C054

Any suggestions?

Last edited by fijam (2009-08-20 22:35:10)

sph

Member

Registered: 2008-05-01

Posts: 63

Website

Re: [workaround] log filling up with "ACPI group/action undefined"

At least a starting point: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60088

fijam

Member

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 244

Website

Re: [workaround] log filling up with "ACPI group/action undefined"

I have found several mentions of the problem with no actual solutions suggested. Is that a problem with hardware or software? If software -- should it be worked around in /etc/acpi/handler.sh somehow? Or reported upstream? To whom?

Thanks for your input

djszapi

Member

From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

Website

Re: [workaround] log filling up with "ACPI group/action undefined"

Hello Fijam!

In last case you can see the script code of it for analyzing purposes, it's not so long.

---

http://lpapp.blogspot.com

fijam

Member

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 244

Website

Re: [workaround] log filling up with "ACPI group/action undefined"

Turns out that the message is triggered when the laptop's lid is closed for more than a few seconds. I have no idea if that's a bug but I worked it around in handler.sh before the catch-all condition like that:

video)
    case "$2" in
        C054)   : ;;
        *)  logger "ACPI video action undefined: $2" ;;
    esac
    ;;

It's probably the Wrong Way but I am quite sleepy and it appears to be working.

Thanks for suggestions.