kacpid issues

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 14:00 +1100, Gary Jarrel wrote:

> The main being that after leaving a system unattended for a random
> amount of time the kacpid daemon kicks in and eats up around 98% of the
> cpu. The only way to fix this is to switch the system of and back on
> again? I'm running on a HP Compaq nw8000 notebook 

I had the same thing with kernel version 2.6.10-2-686 on a HP/Compaq
nc6000. See https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5861
For me this problem went away with a Hoary kernel upgrade a while back