I was running RH 5.2 on all my systems (two workstations and the Toshiba
notebook) and upgraded to the 6.x distribution. Many working things broke
after the upgrade, and I'd like insight and help in fixing them.
Let me address the portable issues first. The machine is a Toshiba Portege
3025CT which happily ran 5.2. It now has 6.0 installed (and I'll probably
put 6.1 on it this afternoon). Here's what broke after the upgrade:
apm/apmd now broadcasts a message (from root), that the battery is getting
low. This starts when the battery has about 51% of a full charge remaining.
The messages include a beep, and come up more than once a minute,
overwriting whatever's on the screen at the time. It's extremely annoying.
Under 5.2, this never happened. When the battery got down to about 2 or 3
minutes of remaining time, I'd get a quiet beeping and the battery light
flashed. This gave me plenty of notice to shut down properly and find an
outlet into which I could plug the machine.
I've read the man pages for apm, apmd, wall and mesg. mesg is set to 'n'
for me as a user and for root. The messages still keep coming. It's terribly
annoying and prevents me from using the machine for more than about an hour.
I really need to fix this right away.
Another annoying message just showed up during last week's trip away from
the office: another message that eth0 is down. Well, duh! The machine's
disconnected from the network when it's traveling so of course the interface
is down.
This, too, is a message which never showed up with 5.2 installed.
What do I do to stop these messages yet still have apmd running (silently)
and not have to manually activate/deactivate the ethernet connection?
Essentially, I'm asking how to put the system's behavior back as it was
under the previous distribution.
Thanks,
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
Making environmentally-responsible mining happen. (SM)
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