Nigel Henry wrote:
On Friday 22 December 2006 00:47, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
Hello,
When running 'poweroff' my system does not power off. The last line
printed on the screen is "acpi_power_off called". My grub/menu.lst file
has no kernel options related to acpi or apm. After having searched the
net, I have also tried the following four different kernel option
combinations:
acpi=off apm=on
acpi=off apm=real-mode-poweroff
acpi=ht
apic=ht
but none of them makes the system power down. For the first two of
these, the last line printed on the screen was "System halted". I think
that was the case for the last two as well.
It is interesting that the system managed to power off one time using no
grub/menu.lst kernel options, after having tried one of the acpi/apm
options above on a previous boot, and then pressed the reset button.
Power off was working on this machine a a couple of years ago, also
running Debian (maybe Sid), with an earlier 2.6 kernel.
My motherboard is an ASUS A7S333, with the newest BIOS version
(rev1006), and AMD Athlon XP2200+. The software is Debian Etch from
today. Thus I have kernel version 2.6.18-3-k7. Both 'acpid' and 'apmd'
are installed.
I don't if this link is any use, but I found it the other day while trying to
fix another problem. I am not having this shutdown problem on Etch, but on an
FC5 install, and only with some kernels.
It might be worth a look.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390547
Nigel.
Thanks Nigel and 'macondo', your suggestion worked! I now have the
kernel options
'acpi=off apm=power_off'
in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and
apm power_off=1
in /etc/modules. It works great. Thanks again :-)
Happy holidays from Norway,
Torquil Sørensen
