Just noticed this this morning, system can only boot up when I take the battery out.(when the battery is plugged in this(below) shows up, and if booting no go) [ 169.207193] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 169.207203] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/light [ 169.207208] CPU 0 [ 169.207212] Modules linked in: rfcomm sco radeon bnep l2cap ttm drm_kms_helper drm ipt_LOG iptable_nat nf_nat xt_state nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables btusb bluetooth firewire_ohci ath9k firewire_core ath9k_common video battery ac ath9k_hw evdev joydev ohci1394 ath button thermal sky2 i2c_i801 raw1394 ieee1394 uhci_hcd ehci_hcd coretemp acpi_cpufreq processor appletouch applesmc uvcvideo [ 169.207303] [ 169.207310] Pid: 182, comm: kacpi_notify Not tainted 2.6.34-rc3-00502-gd3b0936 #42 Mac-F42187C8/MacBookPro2,2 [ 169.207316] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81237e43>] [<ffffffff81237e43>] acpi_ex_extract_from_field+0xb1/0x24a [ 169.207332] RSP: 0018:ffff88003eced8d0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 169.207338] RAX: 00000000000000ff RBX: ffff88003ec61090 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 169.207343] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: ffff88003ec61090 [ 169.207349] RBP: ffff88003eced940 R08: 0000000000000080 R09: ffffffff815fde18 [ 169.207355] R10: ffffffff00000008 R11: ffffffff8165a740 R12: ffff88003ed445a0 [ 169.207361] R13: 0000000000000020 R14: ffff88003a102c30 R15: ffff88003eced908 [ 169.207368] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880001a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 169.207374] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 169.207380] CR2: 00000000009b42c0 CR3: 000000000165c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 169.207386] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 169.207392] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 169.207398] Process kacpi_notify (pid: 182, threadinfo ffff88003ecec000, task ffff88003eda0fe0) [ 169.207403] Stack: [ 169.207407] ffff88003a102c30 0000000000000010 ffff88003ed445a0 0000000000000020 [ 169.207416] <0> ffff88003a102c30 ffff88003a102c30 ffff88003eced920 ffffffff8124fd7e [ 169.207427] <0> ffffffff815d2842 ffff88003ec61090 ffff88003ed445a0 0000000000000020 [ 169.207439] Call Trace: [ 169.207449] [<ffffffff8124fd7e>] ? acpi_ut_exit+0x31/0x39 [ 169.207460] [<ffffffff81235992>] acpi_ex_read_data_from_field+0x297/0x2e9 [ 169.207469] [<ffffffff8123eaf8>] acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value+0x320/0x444 [ 169.207479] [<ffffffff812369a8>] acpi_ex_resolve_to_value+0x374/0x404 [ 169.207488] [<ffffffff8122c183>] acpi_ds_evaluate_name_path+0x9c/0x13e [ 169.207496] [<ffffffff8124febc>] ? acpi_ut_trace_ptr+0x66/0x68 [ 169.207504] [<ffffffff81229da3>] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0xd9/0x646 [ 169.207513] [<ffffffff8124a5d8>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0xc89/0xf69 [ 169.207523] [<ffffffff810e503e>] ? __slab_free+0x2bb/0x2ff [ 169.207532] [<ffffffff81248ec5>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x162/0x462 [ 169.207540] [<ffffffff8124fc79>] ? acpi_ut_ptr_exit+0x36/0x3e [ 169.207548] [<ffffffff8124b29c>] acpi_ps_execute_method+0x272/0x3ba [ 169.207556] [<ffffffff8124fd7e>] ? acpi_ut_exit+0x31/0x39 [ 169.207564] [<ffffffff81243791>] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x235/0x3b6 [ 169.207573] [<ffffffff81242c0e>] acpi_evaluate_object+0x235/0x397 [ 169.207586] [<ffffffffa01264bf>] acpi_battery_update+0xe9/0x26d [battery] [ 169.207597] [<ffffffff8142cd84>] ? schedule+0x67b/0x747 [ 169.207607] [<ffffffffa012666e>] acpi_battery_notify+0x2b/0x87 [battery] [ 169.207617] [<ffffffff8121e4ee>] acpi_device_notify+0x14/0x16 [ 169.207626] [<ffffffff81231553>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x67/0x80 [ 169.207634] [<ffffffff8121afbf>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x24/0x31 [ 169.207644] [<ffffffff8106e67f>] worker_thread+0x1be/0x24a [ 169.207652] [<ffffffff8121af9b>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x0/0x31 [ 169.207661] [<ffffffff81072321>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34 [ 169.207670] [<ffffffff8106e4c1>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x24a [ 169.207678] [<ffffffff81071f0b>] kthread+0x7a/0x82 [ 169.207688] [<ffffffff81027e24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 169.207696] [<ffffffff81071e91>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82 [ 169.207704] [<ffffffff81027e20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [ 169.207708] Code: b8 0b 00 00 00 e9 ab 01 00 00 31 c0 48 8b 7d b8 31 d2 44 89 e9 4c 8d 7d c8 f3 aa 48 89 df 0f b6 4b 25 8b 73 18 8d 74 31 ff 89 f0 <f7> f1 31 d2 89 45 b4 0f b6 43 24 8d 04 06 31 f6 f7 f1 31 c9 89 [ 169.207802] RIP [<ffffffff81237e43>] acpi_ex_extract_from_field+0xb1/0x24a [ 169.207811] RSP <ffff88003eced8d0> [ 169.207821] ---[ end trace 27efbb4e1cf07704 ]--- only patches I have on top of the current HEAD are: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/13/433 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/11/86 I'm seeing applesmc.c in the mix, but just verified that they are not the cause. (git reset --hard origin). Now I just noticed there is already a bug filed and a patch: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id= 15749 I did try this patch out and yes it does fix the boot hang, and Oops. -- Justin P. Mattock -- 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