thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: sysfs attribute hotkey_enable is deprecated and will be removed. Hotkey reporting is always enabled

[Marvin]

sounds stopped working after an apt update. pulseaudio seems to be taking over the system. cpu utilisation is over 6 on a ThinkPad T60p

ProblemType: KernelOops
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: svet 3342 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xee400000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41981,17aa2025,00100200'
   Controls : 21
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Tue Oct 27 14:21:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Failure: oops
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=db319103-2475-47ca-a10c-bbe8e72c9d7e
MachineType: LENOVO 20079EU
OopsText:
 thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: sysfs attribute hotkey_enable is deprecated and will be removed. Hotkey reporting is always enabled
 thinkpad_acpi: deprecated sysfs attribute: access by process with PID 11497
 thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: sysfs attribute bluetooth_enable is deprecated and will be removed. Please switch to generic rfkill before year 2010
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=d0c9939d-01f7-4d2f-b503-0348649799e8 ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.24
SourcePackage: linux
Tags: kernel-oops
Title: thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: sysfs attribute hotkey_enable is deprecated and will be removed. Hotkey reporting is always enabled
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:5351): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:5351): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
dmi.bios.date: 09/12/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 79ETE3WW (2.23 )
dmi.board.name: 20079EU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr79ETE3WW(2.23):bd09/12/2008:svnLENOVO:pn20079EU:pvrThinkPadT60p:rvnLENOVO:rn20079EU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 20079EU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T60p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 430361, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.