On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:46:03AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Bart Vanbrabant (bart.vanbrabant(a)zoeloelip.be) said:
> I finally found the problem. It's caused by the battery acpi module. I
> searched for insmod in rc.sysinit and there is only one part that uses
> insmod instead of modprobe. When I change this into modprobe my system
> boots normal and haldeamon starts. But the battery-applet doesn't work.
> I tried to do /sbin/insmod battery.ko and it takes a long time to finish.
> Hal crashes when I boot with a new kernel. I now move the battery.ko module out the
acpi directory, this way I can boot in a normal way but the battery applet doesn't
work of course.
>
> What should I do now?
You can file a kernel bug about the battery driver, although it's probably
related to something funky in your BIOS as well.
There are a number of kernel bugs open on the acpi battery stuff
already.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=165150
Chances are this is a dupe of one of them.
Dave