ACPI BIOS error (bug) ... and regular notebook crashes

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I have a notebook a few months old. After a while I started getting the following message related to a ACPI BIOS error (bug) … when booting AlmaLinux9 and Linux started crashing randomly several times per day (it goes off/black screen and reboots):

sudo dmesg | grep Error show the error messages at boot (first two) and some additional ones:

[ 0.714096] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_SB.PCI0.GP17.MP2], AE_NOT_FOUND (20211217/psargs-330)
[ 0.714116] ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.GPIO._EVT due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20211217/psparse-529)
[ 600.630368] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [VRTC] (00000000c34d1ece) [SystemCMOS] (20211217/evregion-130)
[ 600.630385] ACPI Error: Region SystemCMOS (ID=5) has no handler (20211217/exfldio-261)
[ 600.630392] ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.PCI0.SBRG.EC._Q9A due to previous error (AE_NOT_EXIST) (20211217/psparse-529)

I updated the BIOS to the latest version but the problem remains. Can this be fixed?

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Can you add this kernel parameter acpi=off and try with this ? ?
You can use for editing using ‘e’ on grub menu

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Thank you for your feedback.

The redhat website suggests with respect to your suggestion, to first try with:

chkconfig --level 345 acpid off

I did so and didn’t experience a crash so far otherwise, I’ll move to the next of 3 suggested steps of which the 3rd one is what you suggested.

In addition to that, I found a post in an Arch forum related to my notebook stating, that the crashes are caused by a kernel - GPU related problem which is fixed by kernel 5.17.

So installing a newer kernel is also on the table and on the Rocky Linux website are detailed instructions about how to install kernel 6.0

I’ll move on step-by-step.