On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:18 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > Well, I have to say I've had just about enough of ACPI. This last time > it nearly corrupted my entire hard drive. > > Here's my problem: > > For some bizarre reason the newer Fedora versions (from 7 onward), the > ACPI implementations refuse to play nice with my CPU fan (or my PS fan, > I cannot say which, /other/ than it's a fan). So, I have posted a > couple of times about these errors being logged in syslog and got no > answer, so I figure not using ACPI is fine. It leaves my fans on all > the time, but hell, it's just money, right? > > Now the problem is kinda sorta rearing it's ugly head again. Even with > 'noacpi' as a kernel option, I'm still getting thousands of 'ACPI: Can't > turn fan device to off' or similar being dumped into syslog after about > 4 or 5 hours of this system being on. At a certain point syslog fills > up my hard drive (/var is on /, I never expected this to be a problem) > and bombs my system. > > The last time this happened (last night) it corrupted / on my primary > HDD and I had to fsck it manually. > > So, after a good therapy session, I'm calm enough to find out the > answers to a couple of questions: > > 1. Is there any way possible to stop ACPI from logging these blasted > messages, especially when I have 'noacpi' as a kernel option? > > 2. If that's not possible, is there anyway to make rsyslog STOP logging > at a certain size for /var/log/messages? > > 3. Is there any other bleeding way around this so I can stop worrying > about this silly problem? ---- I'm not sure that noacpi is an option...perhaps you mean noacpi=1 you can also boot with the param 'acpi=off' but that is what is known as the 'big hammer' http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines