Lenovo R61 - PCIE card errors continually logged when docked to lenovo advanced dock

[Stuart Colville]

When docked to the lenovo advanced dock these error messages are endlessly logged to /var/log/syslog with ~24 lines per second being generated

[ 1652.908342] pciehp 0000:00:1c.4:pcie02: Card not present on Slot(2-1)
[ 1652.944781] pciehp 0000:00:1c.4:pcie02: Card present on Slot(2-1)
[ 1653.053396] pciehp 0000:00:1c.4:pcie02: Card not present on Slot(2-1)
[ 1653.089910] pciehp 0000:00:1c.4:pcie02: Card present on Slot(2-1)

It seems to be related to the empty PCIE slot in the dock - I looked at the bios but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn off the pcie slot.

$ lspci | grep 00:1c.4
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)

$ uname -a
Linux ganesha 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:57:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

[Kurt (kurtkaninchen)]

Same problem here with my T60p and an Advanced Dock. There is nothing in the PCIe-slot.

[Dirk (dirk71schneider)]

The same problem on a R60 and the Advanced Dock with Karmic Koala. No Card in the PCIe-slot. If the Computer is not in the Advanced Dock, there is no message.

[Martin Zuther (mzuther)]

I have a Lenovo Z61m laptop, and it seems that I have the same problem:

2010-01-20 12:22:57 quengelkopp kernel [ 8863.919045] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: Card present on Slot(2)
2010-01-20 12:22:58 quengelkopp kernel [ 8863.956306] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: Card not present on Slot(2)
2010-01-20 12:22:58 quengelkopp kernel [ 8864.069954] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: Card present on Slot(2)
2010-01-20 12:22:59 quengelkopp kernel [ 8865.616523] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: Card not present on Slot(2)
2010-01-20 12:22:59 quengelkopp kernel [ 8865.677262] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: Card present on Slot(2)

I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 (Linux quengelkopp 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux). What is really annoying is after a while, my Desktop locks up for a few seconds and I get the message "Netzwerk attached" (that would be "network attached" in English). Today, the problem culminated in

2010-01-20 12:23:07 quengelkopp kernel [ 8873.404004] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [NetworkManager:976]

To my best knowledge, my PCI-Express port is empty.

# lspci | grep 00:1c.0
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)

Martin

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Stuart,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 392849

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Stuart Colville (muffinresearch)]

For me this has gone away under Karmic so I'd be happy for this to be closed.

$ uname -r
2.6.31-20-generic