Package: general Severity: important Hi,
I tried to clarify in a discussion on debian-devel what package might be responsible for the problem I face on *all* three machines I updated to testing at a date I do not exactly remember in February this year (sorry for the vague description). I just copy the introductory mail to debian-devel http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg00240.html here. See for comments the other mails of the thread and no neither of the responses in this thread nor private mails helped. --------------------------- >8 ------------------------- since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt on three different testing-boxes (two older desktops without ACPI and one laptop with ACPI). The computer just does not switch off. If I try to reboot it is also impossible, because the shutdown process stops at the same point where halt stops. The last messages on the console are: Shutdown: hda System halted. At one single time I managed to observe at the console Saving random seed ... done Usage: grep [OPTION] ... PATTERN [FILE] ... Try `grep --help` for more information Shutdown: hda System halted. Unmounting remote and non-toplevel virtual filesystems ... done The log of one of this machine does not uncover something interesting: Mar 6 22:43:35 energija kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Mar 6 22:43:35 energija kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Mar 6 22:43:35 energija kernel: RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). Mar 6 22:43:35 energija mountd[1175]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Mar 6 22:43:35 energija kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 6 22:43:35 energija kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 6 22:43:35 energija exiting on signal 15 At Linux-Tage Chemnitz I discussed this problem with other developers: 1. One of them has observed the same (no solution) 2. One visitor had the same problem. Installing Debians own linux kernel image package helped 3. One hint was to load APM module Remarks: I tried different kernels (I had originally installed self-made 2.6.9 / 2.6.11, upgraded to self-made 2.6.15 and even tried official 2.6.15 kernel image - see item 2.) but the situation did not changed. I suspected a change in the apmd package and tried to downgrade the apmd package on the apmd machines which also did not helped. So the question is: what package might be responsible that entered testing for about three weeks and how can I get my boxes working as expected again. I would love to write a reasonable bug report but I have no idea against which package so I could only issue this against general which is a little bit naive. --------------------------- 8< ------------------------- I'm absolutely clueless and it seems the readers of debian-devel and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are it as well and I heard that others had similar observations. I hope somebody will at least be able to identify the package in question to track down the problem and seek for more detailed information. Kind regards Andreas. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (499, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
