Re: acpi_power_off doesn't

Robert Hancock
2006-05-16T05:38:16Z

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Len,
>
> 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.

Do you get any ACPI execution errors, etc. in the dmesg output after the
system has been running for a while? I've seen this happen after the
ACPI machinery gets into a bad state..

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