From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 17:35:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF421E9 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no) Received: from smtp.getmail.no (smtp.getmail.no [84.208.15.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C166B08 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:15 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Received: from get-mta-scan01.get.basefarm.net ([10.5.16.4]) by get-mta-out03.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MGU00JRI0UK5Y90@get-mta-out03.get.basefarm.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:35:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from get-mta-scan01.get.basefarm.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Email Security Appliance) with SMTP id CA5FA179BC09_F987CCB for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no (cm-84.215.134.159.getinternet.no [84.215.134.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by get-mta-scan01.get.basefarm.net (Sophos Email Appliance) with ESMTPSA id A9BC617AC278_F987CCF for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:08 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:35:08 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0 Message-id: <20130118183508.53fe965349b97bc1afa5303c@getmail.no> In-reply-to: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:35:16 -0000 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:26:33 +0200 Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > The only error I'm able to find in /var/log/messages during boot-time is > this: > > --- > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: acpi0: <_ASUS_ Notebook> on motherboard > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Error: [RAMB] Namespace lookup > failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110527/psargs-392) > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not > execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20110527/nsinit-380) > --- > > Not sure if this is the root cause for this, cause I've seen this error > before and at that time there were no reboots happening (months ago). Also > I find it strange that it says Notebook above, as this is a desktop > machine... FWIW, the part above is a red herring / false alarm; it is caused by a bad / incorrect implementation of acpi on your machine. Blame those who wrote the bios ... -- Torfinn Ingolfsen