[solved] laptop-mode, acpi logging: verbose++

evol · 2010-04-27 17:54:48

Hey folks - rare question, due to a rare issue:

Arch, or more specifically laptop-mode/acpi appear to have been misbehaving - this is probably due to me mis-configuring things on my new laptop.

My logs were being hit every second with:

Apr 27 18:34:05 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:05 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:05 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:06 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:07 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]
Apr 27 18:34:07 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:07 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:07 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: Laptop mode 
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: disabled, 
Apr 27 18:34:08 ulx laptop-mode: not active [unchanged]

I've since disabled laptop-mode logging - and the problem is gone - but on or off, I don't think it's really necessary to log laptop-mode status every second! Is this normal behaviour?

I've got one more issue that's going log crazy:

Apr 27 18:40:10 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:11 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:12 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:13 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:14 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:15 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:16 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:17 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:18 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:19 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:20 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:22 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:23 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:24 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:25 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:26 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:27 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:28 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:29 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:31 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:32 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:33 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:34 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1
Apr 27 18:40:35 ulx logger: ACPI action undefined: BAT1

I haven't got a BAT1 - but I do have a second bay which can take a spare battery or dvd drive.

In /proc/acpi/battery - BAT0 and BAT1 are listed

In /sys/class/power_supply/ - only BAT0 is listed

Any ideas on how I'd go about turning off such verbose logging/fix this error?

Is it normal for ACPI to be logging "action undefined: BAT1" every second?

I only became aware of the problem after noticing the problems cron.daily was facing as it was taking forever to complete and hurting system stability.

A little look at my /var/log:
-rw-r----- 1 root log 34M Apr 27 18:52 messages.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 101M Apr 25 15:12 messages.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 90M Apr 18 15:12 messages.log.2

-rw-r----- 1 root log 34M Apr 27 18:52 everything.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 101M Apr 25 15:12 everything.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 90M Apr 18 15:12 everything.log.2

Cheers for any help folks!

Last edited by evol (2010-04-27 18:50:07)

evol · 2010-04-27 18:49:45

K, I fixed this by editing /etc/acpi/handler.sh

Basically I just copied the existing BAT0 section, pasted and edited name to BAT1

No more crazy logging

Arch Linux

#1 2010-04-27 17:54:48

[solved] laptop-mode, acpi logging: verbose++

#2 2010-04-27 18:49:45

Re: [solved] laptop-mode, acpi logging: verbose++

Board footer