[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#635219: acpid: excessive power script invocation

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.10-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

When the battery of my laptop is almost empty, acpi_event keeps showing

battery PNP0C0A:00 00000080 00000001

(about twice per second). The issue is that the power script gets
invoked each time, resulting to a message on the console about stopping
anacron (twice per second, thusly), and a write to
/var/log/pm-powersave.log, thus on the disk, which does not help saving
battery :)

Shouldn't acpid somehow avoid calling the same script for the same event
over and over?

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.13-7     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-27     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools             3.16-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.138-9    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

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

-- 
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at fnac.net>
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