On Sunday 06 Sep 2009 22:05:51 Maxim Levitsky wrote: [..] > [ 79.101221] ACPI Error (dswload-0790): [_T_0] Namespace lookup failure, > AE_ALREADY_EXISTS [ 79.101232] ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During > name lookup/catalog 20090521 psloop-227 [ 79.101240] ACPI Error > (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.WMID.WMBA] (Node > ffff88007f8400c0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS [ 79.101254] ACPI: Marking method > WMBA as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error > > Is very likely due to acer-wmi module I use to control brightness. [..] > [ 240.702830] [<ffffffff8125066e>] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x236/0x3bc > [ 240.702838] [<ffffffff8124fb27>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x265/0x3cc > [ 240.702861] [<ffffffffa09c56fa>] wmi_evaluate_method+0x10a/0x130 [wmi] > [ 240.702869] [<ffffffff81040956>] ? finish_task_switch+0x46/0x120 > [ 240.702877] [<ffffffff813b3c9c>] ? thread_return+0x9f/0x723 > [ 240.702889] [<ffffffffa0a9d7d0>] ? acer_rfkill_update+0x0/0xa0 > [acer_wmi] [ 240.702899] [<ffffffffa0a9d17c>] WMI_execute_u32+0x4c/0x90 > [acer_wmi] [ 240.702911] [<ffffffffa0a9d620>] get_u32+0x90/0x100 > [acer_wmi] [ 240.702918] [<ffffffff8105d19a>] ? worker_thread+0x1ca/0x390 > [ 240.702928] [<ffffffffa0a9d7ea>] acer_rfkill_update+0x1a/0xa0 This is acer-wmi doing its' once per minute poll to check the wireless rfkill status. But I've no idea why that would spontaneously cause ACPI to fall over. -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html