ACPID broken in 3.3

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: ACPID broken in 3.3
started by: andrewb

Posted by andrewb on May 10 2007,03:07

Having at last upgraded to 3.3. on my Libretto 100CT I find that acpid doesn't work any more. I had it working to shut down when the power button was pressed - now it does nothing.

I am using acpid.dsl. It complains about /usr/sbin not being a directory when loaded (it seems to want to put a copy of acpid in there as well as in /etc/init.d. When I run acpid in /etc/init.d there are no error messages & no log file (/var/log/acpid) & it is not shown as a running process. I have the toshiba_acpi module loaded. Nothing in the configuration has been changed since running DSLv3.0.

Looking at /proc/acpi/event (using sudo cat /proc/acpi/event) I can see events arising from the battery & if I press the power button.

I have tried running in 'legacy' mode (i.e. without unionfs) but that makes no difference.

Posted by Juanito on May 10 2007,03:54

Leaving aside the rules and scripts, the contents of the extension should be as follows:

/etc/default/acpid
/etc/init.d/acpid
/etc/logrotate.d/acpid
/usr/bin/acpi_listen
/usr/sbin/acpid

acpid.dsl and acpid.unc work fine for me in DSL 3.3/DSL-N rc4 - to avoid strange stuff happening if you are not using legacy mode, it might be better to use acpid.unc?

Code Sample

# su dsl mydsl-load /mnt/sda1/mydsl/optional/acpid.unc
/mnt/sda1/mydsl/optional/acpid.unc sucessfully loaded!
# /etc/init.d/acpid start
Loading ACPI modules:
battery
ac
processor
button
fan
thermal
Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon: acpid.

This was using acpid.unc from the < DSL Repository/unc > but acpid.dsl from the < DSL-N Repository/testing > also worked on DSL 3.3 with a legacy boot - tested by initiating a shutdown by briefly pressing the power button. Let me know if you still have a problem and I'll have another look.

Posted by andrewb on May 11 2007,23:34

I am using acpid.unc & it looks like a problem with loading the unc file.

After I've loaded the extension using mydsl-load or the mydsl panel listu shows that /ramdisk/opt/acpid/etc & usr are mounted under /etc & /usr. However the /etc/acpi directory contains only powerbtn.sh - none of the other files that are in /opt/acpid/etc/acpi (/events, ac_adapter.sh, acpi_state.sh, lid.ah, powerbtn.sh). All the other files in other linked directories seem to there ok.

Looks like something going wrong with the unionfs system?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 12 2007,02:04

Did you make sure that the extension was downloaded properly? (ie md5sum)

Posted by andrewb on May 12 2007,08:57

md5sum seems OK. I'll have to try some more unc's to check out what is happening. I did have acpid working ok on (I think) v3.0 before I moved to 3.3, but even the version I was using there doesn't work now - complains about /usr/sbin not being a directory when loading.