FC5, And FC6 won't shutdown completely

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 23:13:43 UTC 2007


On 1/11/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
>
> >  using "poweroff" just stalls at "Power down".
> >
> > The last 7 entries from the shutdown messages are.
> >
> > Unmounting file systems:                             OK
> > Halting system...
> > md: stopping all md devices.
> > md: md0 switched to read-only mode.
> > Shutdown: hdb
> > Shutdown: hda
> > Power down.
> >
> > This is probably no surprise as the acpid isn't running.
> >
> > Shutdown with the 2.6.15 kernel runs to completion, but the stuff scrolls past
> > so fast, and no log is kept of it, so can't say what it says. It certainly
> > mentions "ACPI", but what else I'm not sure of.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
>
> Have you tried adding acpi=on as one of the kernel parameters? I ask
> since you mentioned acpid is not running but is running for the earlier
> kernel.
>
> I used to add that line in for my laptop because of the option changing
> from default on to default off from time to time. That was during Severn
> though.
>
> Jim
>

This problem also occurs in OpenSUSE 10.2. The SUSE developers have
pinned it down to the incorporation of SMP into a single kernel
package and not getting the proper switches/options enabled for
uniprocessor systems.




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