Laptop Mode Polluting Logs [solved]

oneself · Last edited by oneself on Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I installed laptop mode and it seems to work fine. However, it continuously pollutes the system logs with the following repeated messages. These messages happen only when the laptop is plugged in. Is there something wrong with it? Is there some way turn the logging off?

Hypnos · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject:

You need to figure out what this event means, and set up an acpid handler (see this post for example). I think laptop-mode is just notifying its response to this unhandled event.

If you get this message repeatedly without doing anything to change the machine's power source, your battery might be damaged.
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oneself · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your reply.

So, I dug in a little deeper based on your link. The file /etc/acpi/events/lm_battery contains the following:

Hypnos · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'm concerned about your battery, emitting a message like that every 5 seconds. Try removing your battery and monitoring the logs on AC power.
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oneself

Good instinct!

I replaced my battery with a spare and the messages stopped. I'm going to get a new battery.

Thank you,
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Hypnos · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:58 pm Post subject:

Great! Anecdotally, a bad battery can ruin the power controller, so better to find it out early.

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