Bug 26568

Summary:	Bug: ACPI BIOS Error
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel-desktop-5.6.6-1.mga7-1-1.mga7	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Doug Laidlaw 2020-04-30 06:55:11 CEST

Running Mga 7.1  Suddenly a lot of bootup lines as follows.

 ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.SAT0.PRT3._GTF.DSSP], AE_NOT_FOUND (20200110/psargs-330)

This reads like an old 2018 kernel bug.  It doesn't affect performance.
The message in Bug 20090 is different.

The fix suggested in 2018:
Add "acpi_mask_gpe=0x6f" to /etc/default/grub

Worked with a 2015 vintage mobo, but not this one, but this message looks very different from the one last week, on the 2015 mobo.

Hardware:

Custom PC.
Motherboard: Gigabyte B365M
CPU: Intel i3
RAM: 8 GiB DDR4
Kernel: 5.6.6-desktop-1.mga7
DE: Xfce.

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-04-30 20:24:22 CEST

Thanks for reporting this.
kernel-desktop-5.6.6-1.mga7-1-1.mga7.x86_64 was pushed Sun26/Mon27 April. Can you relate these errors to that?

It is important for others who see this bug to note that the system functions normally in spite of these messages. "It doesn't affect performance", and from the old bug referred to "the system starts and functions correctly". It is an annoyance.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2020-05-01 01:34:33 CEST

(In reply to Doug Laidlaw from comment #0)
That's not an installer issue but a kernel one.
And it's not really an issue, you can merely treat it as a warning

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #1)
That's exactly the version he tried :-)

Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => kernel-desktop-5.6.6-1.mga7-1-1.mga7

Comment 3 Doug Laidlaw 2020-05-01 12:11:30 CEST

Yes, Thierry, it is a kernel issue, but there was no pigeon-hole for kernel issues.  Maybe I should have linked it to the kernel RPM.

The old one from 2018 was treated as a n upstream bug.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2020-05-01 19:32:00 CEST

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #2)
> (In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #1)
> That's exactly the version he tried :-)
True; but I had asked whether the bug could be tied to this to determine whether the problem came with that kernel, or from an earlier one:
> Can you relate these errors to that?
I would have assigned to it to 'kernel'.

Comment 5 Doug Laidlaw 2020-05-02 03:00:20 CEST

OK.  I thought that you had found the extra words in the RPM name confusing.

Yes, I do still have kernel-5.5.15-desktop-3.mga7 installed.  On booting into it, the startup console readout is identical.  It repeats only half-way down the screen, then the bootup takes over.  On shutting down, the same number of lines appear, followed by the Watchdog message, and a normal shutdown.

A Web search found plenty of forum posts dealing with ACPI errors, but none were recent, and none were identical to this one.