On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Jon Schewe wrote:
> I've got a Dell 690 server that is receiving phantom button/power
> messages in acpid and causing the machine to reboot sometimes.  I've
> disabled the power button message in the acpi events file, however this
> is still concerning.  Anyone got a clue about this?  My other Dell 690s
> are fine.  The major difference between this one and the others is that
> it has 32GB of RAM instead of 4GB.
> Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: received event "button/power PWRF 00000080
> 00000001"
> Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3585[0:0]
> Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3102[101:102]
> Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: completed event "button/power PWRF
> 00000080 00000001"

That's really interesting!

Have you compared the bios versions between the systems?

Do you have a DRAC card installed? If so, is the firmware version the same 
as the others?

Do you have heartbeat turned on in the BIOS?

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