[OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

could you start system terminal and send output of:

uname -a

and

pkg publisher

to this list?

Best regards,

Milan

On 25.06.2012 09:17, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the quick replies. According to Update manager, my
> system is up to date,
> so it seems the latest fixes you mentioned did not make it (yet) into
> OpenIndiana.
> Is there a chance this will happen in the neat future?
>
> Best regards,
> Oliver
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Yuri Pankov [yuri.pankov at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:24 AM
> To: openindiana-discuss
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:39:00 -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, "Weiergräber, Oliver H."
>> <o.h.weiergraeber at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> while testing OpenIndiana (and Solaris 11) on an HP xw8600 
>>> workstation,
>>> I noticed messages like this occurring regularly during bootup:
>>>
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 879926 kern.notice] 
>>> ACPI Error: [CAPD] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS 
>>> (20100915/dsfield-231)
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 804433 kern.notice] 
>>> **** Exception AE_ALREADY_EXISTS during execution of method 
>>> [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node ffffff02d59a8e80)
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 652514 kern.notice] 
>>> Method Execution Stack:
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 489567 kern.notice] 
>>> Method [_OSC] executing: CreateDWordField (CAPB, Local1, CAPD)
>> [...]
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 342246 kern.notice] 
>>> ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node 
>>> ffffff02d59a8e80), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20100915/psparse-632)
>>> May 17 21:13:48 mymachine.mydomain acpica: [ID 117524 kern.notice] 
>>> ACPI: Marking method _OSC as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS 
>>> error
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> What kind of ACPI problem is indicated here? Anything to worry 
>>> about? I did notice stability issues on Solaris 11, but not on 
>>> OpenIndiana, so I guess these are unrelated to the ACPI stuff.
>>> The BIOS version is the latest available for this machine.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Oliver
>>
>> When I was last working on an ACPI update (which I think is what's
>> currently in illumos and OI) Yuri Pankov was helping me test the 
>> code,
>> and observed a problem on his HP laptop that looked something like
>> this, if I recall correctly.  He did some further experimenting and
>> found that he could make his laptop boot without the ACPI errors by
>> attaching the "EC" device a bit later.
>>
>> He showed me a possible fix, which I asked him to do some more work
>> on, but then he ran out of time or something.  Maybe you'd like to
>> pick up his changes and try them?
>
> ACPICA 20100915 isn't the latest version available at the moment (at
> least in illumos tree), which means that you are missing some fixes
> Gordon did. Please try upgrading your OpenIndiana installation first 
> and
> check if it helps.
>
>