Re: kern/42236: cannot start apmd if kernel configured APM device as apm1

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 26,  4:15pm, hashikaw%biology.tohoku.ac.jp@localhost 
(hashikaw%biology.tohoku.ac.jp@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: kern/42236: cannot start apmd if kernel configured APM device as 

| >Number:         42236
| >Category:       kern
| >Synopsis:       cannot start apmd if kernel configured APM device as apm1
| >Confidential:   no
| >Severity:       serious
| >Priority:       low
| >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
| >State:          open
| >Class:          sw-bug
| >Submitter-Id:   net
| >Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 26 16:15:00 +0000 2009
| >Originator:     Kouichi Hashikawa
| >Release:        NetBSD-5.0.1/i386
| >Organization:
| >Environment:
| NetBSD fuurin 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (HIMAWARI) #2: Mon Oct 26 20:28:16 JST 2009  
root@fuurin:/current/netbsd/build/obj/current/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/HIMAWARI
 i386
| >Description:
| I configure my kernel as:
| 
| apm0   at mainbus0                     # Advanced power management
| ...
| acpi0           at mainbus0
| ...
| apm*            at acpi?                # ACPI apm emulation
| ...
| 
| and start this kernel. if device configured as
| 
| acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321
| ...
| apm1 at acpi0: Power Management spec V1.2
| 
| then /etc/rc.d/apmd cannot start:
| 
| cannot open device file `/dev/apmctl'

Try commenting out the apm0 entry.

christos