>>> Sometimes when I run 'halt' my PC does not go off. Last >>> words are >>> >>> acpi_power_off called >>> >>> But the PC stays on. >>> >>> What is the story here? I've seen this problem come up >>> several times, but without solution, as it seems. Any >>> hint would be very helpfull. >> >> Does this happen all the time, or just some of the time? >> Has this always failed on box X, or did it used to >> work in some release Y, and broke in some release Z? >> >> Please supply X, Y, Z. >The problem does not exist, if I boot my PC and then >halt it immediately. If I login and use it for some >time, then acpi_power_off does not work. > >Box 'X' is an Aopen MZ-915M, CPU is a 2 GHz Pentium >M. It is running Debian Sid, kernel is vanilla > >Linux bugs 2.6.17-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sat May 13 16:22:54 CEST 2006 >i686 GNU/Linux > >Old kernels don't work on this PC due to missing >hardware support. The first vanilla kernel that worked >reliably on this box (except for acpi_power_off) was 2.6.16. If you append a "3" to the cmdline and boot without a GUI, does the system still halt properly (even after you log in and use it for a while)? There may be some interaction between X and the video hardware and system shutdown. -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
