Things like that have always been hardware or acpi/bios errors for me, basically power management is broken. You can remove whatever hardware you can (or disable it at a bios level), and try looking for a bios upgrade. Maybe force APM mode and/or disable ACPI as JD said via kernel or bios. Likely it won't be fixed by the vendor, as few, especially but a few years ago cared about linux enough to bother. They usually fix it as a "driver" to windoze (sadly windoze probably works around crap hardware more), and call it *good enough*. My hp has acpi errors like this (breaking suspend, various other shutdown problems under linux), where hp even said in a forum it's not worth their time to fix the bios with so little users reporting it a problem. Boo hp, dell on the other hand will test/qualify/fix for linux on laptops and most hardware. I won't buy or recommend hp laptops again. -mb On 09/14/2012 11:24 PM, JD Austin wrote: > Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management) > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704 > > What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time > with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still > get about 10 errors like the one above when I startup, but at least its > not the constant log filling that was happening before. I found some > documentation listing the BIOS in the SR1700 series of Compaqs as broken. > > http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt > > > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, > wrote: > > Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went > crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root > partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. > > Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough > files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I > then > flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no > messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for > about > a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all > seemed to > be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog > files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the > most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were > added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the > messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I > figure out what is causing a flare-up like this? > > I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link: > http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000 > > As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per > second > before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added > every couple of minutes or so. > > Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups > and how to stop it. > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss