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.
