Hello again! I recently (10/17/2017) reinstalled openSUSE Tumbleweed on my old system (dual Intel Pentium 4 processors, 2+ GiB of Ram, Western Digital hard disk drive, integrated VGA adapter). I did the reinstall because I was having trouble with the new BTRFS. I went back to EXT4 for the file system, and my system is behaving much better now. But I do have one little problem – it’s more of an annoyance than anything else.
Whenever I reboot my system I have to boot up twice. The first attempt always hangs up with an error message (usually two of them, but sometimes as many as six). This morning I got these two errors.
21.647883 ACPI Invalid _PCT data
21.647667 ACPI Invalid _PCT data
The second boot attempt always succeeds (so far). But I do get the same error message on the second boot. (This morning, again.)
19.712410] ACPI Warning: \_PR.CPU1._PCT: Return Package is too small - found 1 elements, expected 2 (20170531/nsprepkg-398)
19.712432] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
19.712980] ACPI Warning: \_PR.CPU2._PCT: Return Package is too small - found 1 elements, expected 2 (20170531/nsprepkg-398)
19.712998] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
19.826604] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
19.827228] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
19.861515] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
19.862163] ACPI: Invalid _PCT data
Any ideas how I can fix this? Thank you!
Hi
Related to frequency scaling… Line 234;
http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
I’m guessing nothing can be done for an old processor… running 32bit is it?
Well, I found that bit of code … it looks like it’s been part of Linux for a long time. I’ve been running an openSUSE version of Linux for about 15 or 16 years now. About 10 years on this box. And yes, it’s a 32-bit processor (2 of them, actually).
The odd thing is, I’ve never gotten this error message before. I ran Tumbleweed for about a month before my latest install, and the only thing I changed was to use the EXT4 file system instead of BTRFS.
As I stated previously, this is more of an annoyance than anything else. I’m just curious why it started happening recently, when it didn’t happen just a few weeks ago.
On Sat 04 Nov 2017 07:36:01 PM CDT, davidcbryant1951 wrote:
malcolmlewis;2843928 Wrote:
> Hi
> Related to frequency scaling… Line 234;
> http://tinyurl.com/yaywgjfa
>
> I’m guessing nothing can be done for an old processor… running 32bit
> is it?
Well, I found that bit of code … it looks like it’s been part of Linux
for a long time. I’ve been running an openSUSE version of Linux for
about 15 or 16 years now. About 10 years on this box. And yes, it’s a
32-bit processor (2 of them, actually).
The odd thing is, I’ve never gotten this error message before. I ran
Tumbleweed for about a month before my latest install, and the only
thing I changed was to use the EXT4 file system instead of BTRFS.
As I stated previously, this is more of an annoyance than anything else.
I’m just curious why it started happening recently, when it didn’t
happen just a few weeks ago.
Hi
Changes in the kernel, 32bit flags are being dropped, so maybe one of
those has affected it…
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