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

[vtpitt]

running virus scan with Avast when error first came up

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: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mel 2036 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe220000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41984,17aa20d7,00100400'
   Controls : 29
   Simple ctrls : 18
Date: Sun Nov 1 07:53:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Failure: oops
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=259a2dc4-87df-4d2e-a307-0fcab1f4147d
MachineType: LENOVO 7732CTO
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 2817
 thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: sysfs attribute hotkey_enable is deprecated and will be removed. Hotkey reporting is always enabled
 CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling_rate_max sysfs file is deprecated - used by: avastgui
 wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)
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=8aa4127b-59dc-4ed0-9e35-a45c032fc56b 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
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
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:

dmi.bios.date: 04/25/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETB7WW (2.17 )
dmi.board.name: 7732CTO
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:bvr7LETB7WW(2.17):bd04/25/2008:svnLENOVO:pn7732CTO:pvrThinkPadR61:rvnLENOVO:rn7732CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7732CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R61
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.