On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:08:48 +0100 Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:53, pds wrote: > > > > My experience is that SuSe doesn't have a problem shutting down. > > At least FC5 & FC6 have a problem shutting down once I log in KDE or > > GNOME. If I don't log in or only use a console then power off > > works. I had seen somewhere on the list and a bug that dbus is a > > culprit. > > > > -pete > > Hi Pete. Tried that after your post. First booted up as far as GDM, > then shutdown, but machine still refused to shutdown completely. Next > booted up to init3, logged in as user, then used "halt" to shut down, > but still no joy. halt should only halt the machine, try it with 'poweroff'. I expect that you will still have problems.... -pete > > During the last 2-3 hours I've been scouring logs. Dmesg, acpid, and > messages. > > Ok here goes. I booted up FC5 with kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (the > original one). After all the stuff that ends up in dmesg various > daemons services are started. The first one to start with this kernel > is "Acpi" as below. Starting Acpi Daemon OK > > This is verified by one entry in /var/log/acpid for today, even > though I've booted other kernels today, but obviously because the > acpid wasn't started for these other kernels, no entries are there. > See below. > > /var/log/acpid: > [Thu Jan 11 16:45:57 2007] starting up > [Thu Jan 11 16:45:57 2007] 1 rule loaded > [Thu Jan 11 16:46:21 2007] client connected from 2171[68:68] > [Thu Jan 11 16:46:21 2007] 1 client rule loaded > > There was one entry also for yesterday, and the day before when I > booted with this kernel, but I have rebooted using different kernels > many times over the last couple of days, but with no entries in this > log. > > Moving on to /var/log/messages. the first bit below is when booting > with the 2.6.15 kernel (the one that shutsdown ok), the one I'm > booted into at the mo. > > Jan 11 16:45:29 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > Jan 11 16:45:30 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source > = /proc/kmsg started. > Jan 11 16:45:30 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 > (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.0 20060304 > (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)) #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 > <snip> > Jan 11 16:45:37 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 > Jan 11 16:45:38 localhost kernel: Allocating PCI resources starting > at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bfff0000) > Jan 11 16:45:38 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists > Jan 11 16:45:38 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: ro > root=LABEL=/1 Jan 11 16:45:38 localhost kernel: Local APIC disabled > by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" > > The first line after the <snip> is the relevant one. Compare this > with the output booting with a later kernel, as below. > > Jan 11 15:49:45 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > Jan 11 15:49:46 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source > = /proc/kmsg started. > Jan 11 15:49:46 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 > (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 > (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)) #1 Tue Aug 8 15:30:55 EDT 2006 > <snip> > Jan 11 15:49:52 localhost kernel: ACPI: Disabling ACPI support > Jan 11 15:49:53 localhost kernel: Allocating PCI resources starting > at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bfff0000) > Jan 11 15:49:54 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists > Jan 11 15:49:54 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: ro > root=LABEL=/1 3 Jan 11 15:49:54 localhost kernel: Local APIC disabled > by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" > > The first line after the <snip> here shows "ACPI: Disabling ACPI > support", and this ( and I'm convinced after some updates to FC5) is > the same for all kernels later than the 2.6.15 one. > > Any Guru's out there that know whats going on here? > > I'm personally convinced that this problem started after some updates > to FC5, which are only affecting kernels later than my 2.6.15 one. > Which update is anybodies guess. > > Aaron has the same problem with FC6, but I presume the kernel that > was installed, when he installed FC6 was a lot later version than my > 2.6.15 one which shutsdown ok on FC5. > > The menu item "Services" shows "Acpid" as running, in the status box > for the 2.6.15 kernel, but for any later kernel the status box is > empty, although "Acpid" is on "Services" list, and shows a > description of it. Trying to start it for the later kernels, I get a > confirmation box saying that it's started, but still nothing in the > status box, so obviously it's lying. > > This is a frustrating problem, especially as I have no idea as to > which update has changed the behaviour of later kernels than the > 2.6.15 one. Alright it's no big deal to have to press, and hold the > start button on the machine to switch it off, but I shouldn't have to. > > Nigel. > > > > >