Re: ACPI Exception AE_NO_MEMORY

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:04:53PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:21:55AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > Dear Lists,
> > 
> > Last night, my Xen / i386PAE (netbsd-5) server had died with "ACPI
> > Exception" messages flooding on console.  The full messge was:
> > 
> > ACPI Exception (evgpe-0886): AE_NO_MEMORY, Unable to queue handler for
> >  GPE[ 8] - event disabled [20080321]
> 
> This happened again today.  :-(

And again.

A question: Can a RAM failure (parity error) cause an ACPI exception?  If not,
what are the common reasons for such exceptions?

I configured syslogd to send kernel messages to another host, but when the
ACPI Exception flood started, no syslog messages were logged on the other
host (so I don't know what the first message would be). :-(

If I can't figure this out soon, I'll have to switch to some other OS. :-(

  -jm