On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:31:22 -0700
Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 13 December 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:27:50 -0700
> >
> > Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com> wrote:
> >
> > > With the latest current, I'm seeing bogus values for the battery
> > > information. An example (4.99.42 from this morning):
> ...
> >
> > I wonder if this is related to my "sudden shutdown" issue.  (I alluded
> > to it on tech-userlevel in a different thread.)  Here's some
> > curious output, using a kernel from this afternoon's source:
> 
> It is indeed.  About 30 seconds after I booted the new kernel for the first 
> time, it shut down.  after that time, I'm testing in single user mode.  I 
> also see the sequence of normal -> critical -> normal -> critical messages.  
> I suspect the reported values keep changing.

I found that this went away after updating with more recent code.
I'd blown away the good backup kernel, so eventually I had to pull the
battery to get the new code built and installed.  :-)

Kevin
kml@patheticgeek.net