On-going problem with Toshiba laptop

[John Botha]

acpid goes mad (from invocation), and only shuts up when killed: the hard drive light doesn't stop flashing, and the laptop fan makes sure I know it works.

First the general stuff:

  root:/var/log# lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu 8.10
  Release: 8.10

  root:/var/log# apt-cache policy acpid
  acpid:
    Installed: 1.0.6-9ubuntu4
    Candidate: 1.0.6-9ubuntu4
    Version table:
   *** 1.0.6-9ubuntu4 0
          500 http://localhost intrepid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The specifics are in the attached file, which has gobs of stuff I hope will help.

~8-)
John

[penalvch (penalvch)]

John Botha, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

If reproducible, could you also please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.13-rc7

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]