https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198783
--- Comment #6 from Martin von Wittich (martin.von.witt...@iserv.eu) --- I've got access to an affected machine again, so I've collected some further information: * `ls | cat` output - you can see the unnamed folder in the form of an empty line that shouldn't be there (`|cat` to force ls to print each filename on a line of its own; `command` builtin to circumvent `ls` aliases): root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# command ls | cat APIC BOOT DSDT dynamic FACP FACS1 FACS2 HPET MCFG SSDT1 SSDT2 SSDT3 SSDT4 SSDT5 * `ls -l` output: root@notebooksak02:~# command ls -l /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2018-04-03 10:35 -r-------- 1 root root 104 2018-04-03 10:35 APIC -r-------- 1 root root 40 2018-04-03 10:35 BOOT -r-------- 1 root root 34035 2018-04-03 10:35 DSDT drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2018-04-03 10:35 dynamic -r-------- 1 root root 244 2018-04-03 10:35 FACP -r-------- 1 root root 64 2018-04-03 10:35 FACS1 -r-------- 1 root root 64 2018-04-03 10:35 FACS2 -r-------- 1 root root 56 2018-04-03 10:35 HPET -r-------- 1 root root 60 2018-04-03 10:35 MCFG -r-------- 1 root root 692 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT1 -r-------- 1 root root 1263 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT2 -r-------- 1 root root 458 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT3 -r-------- 1 root root 4329 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT4 -r-------- 1 root root 1095 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT5 * For some reason I don't understand, the `ls` output changes (it prints lots of ??? and also an error message) when I `cd` to the folder: root@notebooksak02:~# cd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# command ls -l ls: cannot access : No such file or directory total 0 -????????? ? ? ? ? ? -r-------- 1 root root 104 2018-04-03 10:35 APIC -r-------- 1 root root 40 2018-04-03 10:35 BOOT -r-------- 1 root root 34035 2018-04-03 10:35 DSDT drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2018-04-03 10:35 dynamic -r-------- 1 root root 244 2018-04-03 10:35 FACP -r-------- 1 root root 64 2018-04-03 10:35 FACS1 -r-------- 1 root root 64 2018-04-03 10:35 FACS2 -r-------- 1 root root 56 2018-04-03 10:35 HPET -r-------- 1 root root 60 2018-04-03 10:35 MCFG -r-------- 1 root root 692 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT1 -r-------- 1 root root 1263 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT2 -r-------- 1 root root 458 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT3 -r-------- 1 root root 4329 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT4 -r-------- 1 root root 1095 2018-04-03 10:35 SSDT5 * You can see the folder without a name in the second line of the `find` output, but it's impossible to differentiate it from the parent folder because both lines seem to end with `/`: root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# cd root@notebooksak02:~# find /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MCFG /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACS1 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT4 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/APIC /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT2 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/BOOT /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/SSDT6 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/SSDT9 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/SSDT7 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/SSDT8 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACS2 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT5 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/FACP /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT3 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT1 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/HPET * `find` in the dir also looks a bit different, now you can differentiate the parent folder and the unnamed folder: root@notebooksak02:~# cd - /sys/firmware/acpi/tables root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# find . ./ ./MCFG ./FACS1 ./SSDT4 ./APIC ./SSDT2 ./BOOT ./dynamic ./dynamic/SSDT6 ./dynamic/SSDT9 ./dynamic/SSDT7 ./dynamic/SSDT8 ./DSDT ./FACS2 ./SSDT5 ./FACP ./SSDT3 ./SSDT1 ./HPET * `find -ls` illustrates the problem better because `-ls` causes `find` to print an error message when it encounters the affected folder. I don't know for certain what `find` is trying to do when it encounters the error and I don't have `strace` on the machine, but I believe it is trying to `chdir()` into the unnamed folder: root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# find -ls 1474 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Apr 3 10:35 . find: `./': No such file or directory 1482 0 -r-------- 1 root root 60 Apr 3 10:35 ./MCFG 1479 0 -r-------- 1 root root 64 Apr 3 10:35 ./FACS1 1485 0 -r-------- 1 root root 4329 Apr 3 10:35 ./SSDT4 1487 0 -r-------- 1 root root 104 Apr 3 10:35 ./APIC 1483 0 -r-------- 1 root root 1263 Apr 3 10:35 ./SSDT2 1488 0 -r-------- 1 root root 40 Apr 3 10:35 ./BOOT 1475 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 3 10:35 ./dynamic 1493 0 -r-------- 1 root root 634 Apr 3 10:40 ./dynamic/SSDT6 1496 0 -r-------- 1 root root 71 Apr 3 10:40 ./dynamic/SSDT9 1494 0 -r-------- 1 root root 1575 Apr 3 10:40 ./dynamic/SSDT7 1495 0 -r-------- 1 root root 184 Apr 3 10:40 ./dynamic/SSDT8 1478 0 -r-------- 1 root root 34035 Apr 3 10:35 ./DSDT 1480 0 -r-------- 1 root root 64 Apr 3 10:35 ./FACS2 1486 0 -r-------- 1 root root 1095 Apr 3 10:35 ./SSDT5 1477 0 -r-------- 1 root root 244 Apr 3 10:35 ./FACP 1484 0 -r-------- 1 root root 458 Apr 3 10:35 ./SSDT3 1476 0 -r-------- 1 root root 692 Apr 3 10:35 ./SSDT1 1481 0 -r-------- 1 root root 56 Apr 3 10:35 ./HPET * Not sure if `dmidecode` is helpful at all, but it probably won't hurt to have as much information about the hardware as possible :) [see attached file] root@notebooksak02:~# dmidecode > dmidecode.txt * `os.listdir` is a Python function that lists the folder contents. This is used by `glob.glob` internally; as I explained above, this function returns an array, but the first element is an empty string (due to the unnamed folder) which causes `glob.glob` to fail. I've added the output as proof for my explanation above: root@notebooksak02:/sys/firmware/acpi/tables# cd root@notebooksak02:~# python -c ' import os print os.listdir("/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/") ' ['', 'MCFG', 'FACS1', 'SSDT4', 'APIC', 'SSDT2', 'BOOT', 'dynamic', 'DSDT', 'FACS2', 'SSDT5', 'FACP', 'SSDT3', 'SSDT1', 'HPET'] * I hope `acpidump` output might be useful. `acpidump -s` (summary): root@notebooksak02:~# ./acpidump-acpica -s ACPI: RSDP 0x000F67C0 000024 (v02 FUJ ) ACPI: RSDT 0x7F6D4944 00004C (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: XSDT 0x7F6D4990 000074 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: DSDT 0x7F6D4A04 0084F3 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: FACS 0x7F6E2FC0 000040 ACPI: SSDT 0x7F6DCEF7 0002B4 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: FACP 0x7F6DD1AB 0000F4 (v03 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: HPET 0x7F6DD29F 000038 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: MCFG 0x7F6DD2D7 00003C (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x7F6DD313 0004EF (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x7F6DD802 0001CA (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x7F6DD9CC 0010E9 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x7F6DEAB5 000447 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: APIC 0x7F6DEEFC 000068 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: BOOT 0x7F6DEF64 000028 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000 00027A (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000 000047 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000 000627 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000 0000B8 (v01 FUJ FJNB1CE 01140000 FUJ 00000100) * `acpidump` complete plain text dump: [see attached file] root@notebooksak02:~# ./acpidump-acpica | gzip -c > acpidump.txt.gz * `acpidump -b` complete binary dump: [see attached file] root@notebooksak02:~# mkdir dump root@notebooksak02:~# cd dump/ root@notebooksak02:~/dump# ../acpidump-acpica -b root@notebooksak02:~# tar cfz acpi.bin.tar.gz dump * Last but not least the output of Zhang Rui's script. I was wrong with my assumption "Also, it would work only after cd'ing...", but I think I was right by suspecting that the output wouldn't be of any help because `ls` prints an empty line for the unnamed folder, which the `for` loop will of course ignore :) (I had to remove the leading > inserted by the shell when pasting the multi-line command because they wreak havoc with bugzillas markdown parser) root@notebooksak02:~# for table in $(ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables) do if [ -d $table ] then echo found directory: $table continue else echo found file: $table fi done found file: APIC found file: BOOT found file: DSDT found file: dynamic found file: FACP found file: FACS1 found file: FACS2 found file: HPET found file: MCFG found file: SSDT1 found file: SSDT2 found file: SSDT3 found file: SSDT4 found file: SSDT5 I can't think of any more things to collect now. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla