Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

[Bruno Costacurta <pubmb.bco@pt.lu>]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 19:54, Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> >> Hello to all,
> >>
> >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the
> >> message 'acpi_power_off called'.
> >> However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via
> >> alsaconf) and indeed I have a vague remember reading something in the
> >> past like acpi has / have some problems with alsa which might block a
> >> complete shutdown like in my case.
> >
> > In order to pinpoint the problem you could remove the alsa modules
> > first.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrei
>
> Strange. I had exactly the same problem and I found out it was the intel
> sound modules... So I wrote a simple /etc/init.d/ script which unloaded
> them just before the shutdown.
>
>
> The strange thing is that after a pretty recent kernel upgrade, I found
> that that was fixed, so I deleted my  custom script. Are you using an
> old kernel? (I am now using the 2.6.22-2-686).
>
> Giorgos

I'm using 2.6.18-5-686
Do you reckon I should upgrade ?

Bye,
Bruno