[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#522756: acpid: ACPID terminates if input devices are removed

[Stefan Tomanek]

Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.10-2
Severity: normal


I can confirm this bug. Removing an input device that was present when acpid
was started inevitably crashes the daemon since it does not simply drop the single
device, but terminates completely.

So an instance of acpid started (possibly during system boot) with an USB
keyboard plugged in will terminate the moment the keyboard is removed, due to
further read attempts on the former device fiel failing.

This is a major issue for notebook computers, since device files are often recreated
during suspend/resume cycles, thus breaking acpid.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-22     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools             3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.123-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  acpid/modules: ac processor battery button fan thermal
  acpid/noacpi: