If its a "server" and should be always on, you could disable that particular nugget of ACPI (I am assuming you're using acpi for other stuff like thermal zone monitoring etc. <br><br>Take a peek at your /etc/acpi/events/ directory you should be able to modify some stuff in there to cause the power button event from doing anything. I also suspect there is a way to disable it at the kernel level it would depend on your kernel though I think.
<br><br>If you don't care about any acpi functionality you can pass something like "acpi=off" to your kernel via grub/lilo.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 8:22 AM, Jon Schewe <<a href="mailto:jpschewe@mtu.net">
jpschewe@mtu.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've got a Dell 690 server that is receiving phantom button/power
<br>messages in acpid and causing the machine to reboot sometimes. I've<br>disabled the power button message in the acpi events file, however this<br>is still concerning. Anyone got a clue about this? My other Dell 690s
<br>are fine. The major difference between this one and the others is that<br>it has 32GB of RAM instead of 4GB.<br>Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: received event "button/power PWRF 00000080<br>00000001"<br>Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3585[0:0]
<br>Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3102[101:102]<br>Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: completed event "button/power PWRF<br>00000080 00000001"<br><br>--<br>Jon Schewe | <a href="http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe" target="_blank">
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