Laptop does not halt or reboot anymore

[Fred Labrosse <ffl-4CLdheC3Iye1Qrn1Bg8BZw@public.gmane.org>]

Fred Labrosse writes:
 > All,
 > 
 > My laptop does not halt (reboots straight away) or reboot (just hangs at
 > the last stage of the shutdown process) since 2.6.7 (see my other message
 > on battery status).
 > 
 > I have seen another post on a similar issue, but without any reply.
 > 
 > My machine is an ACER TM636.
 > 

Some more info on that following some more tests I made.  I also have
problems with battery and temperature status (see my posts on "Battery
status wrong from 2.6.7").  The problem seems to happen when I run on
batteries only and does not happen when I run on AC.

When I run on AC, /sbin/halt does halt the computer, but it restarts right
after that.  After a short while of running on battery, /sbin/halt finishes
with "Power down" printed on the console but the computer does not power
down, as when I had "Enhanced Real time counter" enabled, which I haven't
now.

So it seems that the whole ACPI part of the kernel dies when I run on
batteries.

What can I do to help?

Cheers,

Fred




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