Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.

[MartinG <gronslet gmail com>]

On 9/20/07, Brian Millett <bmillett gmail com> wrote:
> Aaron Konstam escribío:
> > Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch
> > messages in slightly different form:
> >
> > --Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7
> > Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch
> > power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
> > dellWirelessCtl returned 4
> > Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times
> >
> > So now what?
>
> The dellWirelessCtl is part of the:
>
> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl
> libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7
> package.

I'm not sure I follow: I get the same kind of message, even though I
have libsmbios-bin and libsmbios-libs installed (see my previous
message in this same thread):

#  rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl
libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7

# rpm -qa libsmbios\*
libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7
libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7

# tail -n30 -f /var/log/messages
Sep 20 21:41:06 x1 NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch
power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
dellWirelessCtl returned 4
Sep 20 21:41:11 x1 ntpd[10277]: synchronized to 195.139.204.141, stratum 3
Sep 20 21:41:13 x1 NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch
power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
dellWirelessCtl returned 4
Sep 20 21:41:44 x1 last message repeated 5 times
Sep 20 21:42:46 x1 last message repeated 10 times
...
Sep 20 22:06:33 x1 last message repeated 10 times

And just to repeat the info from my previous message for clarity:

# lsmod|grep dcdbas
dcdbas                 12257  0

# cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
modprobe cpufreq-powersave
modprobe  dcdbas
service haldaemon restart

# uname -a
Linux x1 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 EDT 2007 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

# rpm -q NetworkManager knetworkmanager
NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7
knetworkmanager-0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7


I have now also done a clean reboot after I installed libsmbios*.

I would be happy to provide more info and try to debug this problem.

Best regards,
MartinG