Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-9 Severity: important
Hello, I've just upgraded from acpid 1.0.4-5 to 1.0.6-9 on my media centre computer, and have run into a bit of a problem. I use acpid to restart GDM on pressing the power button (a bit odd, I know, but this actually makes a lot of sense for me on this particular computer). I have only a single file in /etc/acpi/events - a file called power, which I have attached for your perusal. I've had a look through the documentation, and as far as I can tell there is no reason why this should not work with 1.0.6. I've removed the /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn file and re-started acpid, as I did for the 1.0.4-5 package. However, when I pressed the power button, nothing happened. The action specified in /etc/acpi/events/power didn't get executed, and nothing got printed to the syslog. Here's the relevant section from the syslog from re-starting acpid to pressing the power button (it's actually been pressed several times, just to check that a few events weren't somehow going missing), as the acpid manpage implies that useful information may be printed here >>> May 31 09:37:25 crush acpid: exiting May 31 09:37:27 crush acpid: client connected from 14190[0:0] May 31 09:37:30 crush acpid: client connected from 14190[0:0] <<< However, if I now stop acpid using the init script, then run /usr/sbin/acpid -d, everything works fine. The action is executed, and the following is observed on the console: >>> crush:/etc/acpi/events$ sudo /usr/sbin/acpid -d acpid: starting up acpid: parsing conf file /etc/acpi/events/power acpid: 1 rule loaded acpid: client connected from 14190[0:0] acpid: 1 client rule loaded acpid: client connected from 14190[0:0] acpid: 1 client rule loaded acpid: received event "button/power PWRF 00000080 0000003d" acpid: rule from 14190[0:0] matched acpid: notifying client 14190[0:0] acpid: rule from 14190[0:0] matched acpid: notifying client 14190[0:0] acpid: rule from /etc/acpi/events/power matched acpid: executing action "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdm. Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm. END HANDLER MESSAGES acpid: action exited with status 0 acpid: 3 total rules matched acpid: completed event "button/power PWRF 00000080 0000003d" acpid: client connected from 15592[0:0] acpid: 1 client rule loaded acpid: client connected from 15592[0:0] acpid: 1 client rule loaded <<< However, clearly this is not really a way to be running acpid regularly. Also, switching back to acpid 1.0.4-5. This is the option I've taken for the moment. If you'd like any further information from me, just let me know and I'll update the bug report as soon as I can. All the best, -Dave. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (550, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (450, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpid depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-11 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo acpid recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
event=button/power.* action=/etc/init.d/gdm restart
