On 2018-03-11, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote:
It seems that on this AMD machine I would have been better advised to blacklist the 'i2c_piix4' module rather than the sp5100_tco watchdog. I wonder what the canonical procedure for this should be? A file in /etc/modprobe.d? A kernel command line parameter? > Hi there, > > So, intrepid me (not really) I upgrade my Stretch to 9.4 and (re)booted this > morning without success (boot hangs at or with the line "sp5100_tco I/0 > address 0x0cd6 already in use"). > > Now, I'm impatient by nature, and after five or ten minutes staring at the > "sp5100" line I rebooted into recovery mode, whereupon a fsck was > performed. At which point I entered the "systemctl default" command and > the machine booted up fine into my LXDE desktop. > > I blacklisted the 'sp5100_tco module.' Apparently there is a conflict > between that module and the i2c_piix4 module. It appears I can have one > or the other but not both at the same time. > > I'm unclear about the implications of my blacklisting sp5100 but after > having done so I rebooted successfully with no hangs. > > BTW, I've had the sp5100 warning message at boot ever since I converted > to systemd. But with only a ten second delay or so. Not sufficient to try my > patience. > > So here I am without a watchdog. > -- Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last. Samuel Beckett
