Hello, thanks everyone for your help, and the very interesting suggestions. I'm afraid my problem was more mundane. It appears to be an effect of the interaction of some modules with the latest kernels. In my case, it can be bypassed by rmmodding ehci_hcd at shutdown. More information, links to bug reports, etc. here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113985 Cheers, Manolo On 08/14/11 at 01:15am, XeCycle wrote: > Richard Schütz <r.schtz@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [...] > > > Switching between reboot methods is possible with a kernel > > parameter. There are several methods. May the source [0] be with > > you. > > > > [0] > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-3.0.y.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c;h=9242436e9937e5a4ef91c6baa04eaf2e90243125;hb=HEAD#l55 > > Hi, your answer seems to be the point. However I believe he should > change the halt method --- he doesn't want to reboot. > > -- > Carl Lei (XeCycle) > Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University > OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 > Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 --
