Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Michael writes: > Edit /etc/default/halt and change the value as Eddy writes. > > Yes, systemd is probably the cause, it replaced pm acpi by its own > terminology, disregarding the legacy convention. Yes, systemd will happily break existing ACPI PM setups without any warning. The systemd point

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade [solved?]

2014-12-18 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hi, Big thanks to Eddy (yes, I can read French :-) ), Michael and Bjørn for your responses. Just a note: in /etc/default/halt I already had: HALT=poweroff Having said that, great mystery: I touched nothing, and poweroff works today... Well, this is actually what I did after reading your three me

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Bjørn, > Yes, systemd will happily break existing ACPI PM setups without any > warning. > > The systemd point of view is that any breakage is caused by other > packages failing to detect that systemd is installed. And besides, that's how they shot down the Debian OpenBSD port, just like that.

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, On 12/18/14 12:56, Michael wrote: >> The systemd point of view is that any breakage is caused by other >> packages failing to detect that systemd is installed. > > And besides, that's how they shot down the Debian OpenBSD port, just like > that. thats not true. greetings -- Florian Rei

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade [solved?]

2014-12-18 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hi again, Just for completeness: the laptop went power off normally after a normal day of work. No idea what my have triggered the odd behaviour from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17, neither about what solved the issue today: I haven't made any significant upgrade since Monday... Thanks to all who pro

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Florian, i did not mean it literally. I meant that systemd upstream rejected to care for any other kernel, than Linux, and that was the result. I can dig up the respective mails if you require me too, but it will be some work since i did not bookmark them (and i have no browser history). But,

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, for openbsd like other architectures .. e.g. GNU/HURD, M68, PowerPC there were simply not enough developers and users. if the openbsd-debian people perform and get their port in order, there is no problem in releasing the next time. systemd is a big step for debian, but its not the cause for

Re: No halt/poweroff on an EliteBook 840 G1 after upgrade

2014-12-18 Thread Michael
Florian, Well, you can see it this way. I'd rather seen a bit more sensibility in doing that 'big step' when it means so much damage. > systemd is a big step for debian, but its not the cause for everything. Yes, true. Well, anyway, poweroff button stopped working for me too, on both my lapto