Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

[Don Hayward <don@pomobuli.net>]

Hey garrone -- I finally got around to shutting my system down.
Confirming that your discovery worked perfectly.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, garrone wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote:
> >
> > > Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system.
> > >
> > > The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system
> > > for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does
> > > turn off as it should!
<snip>
> Just had a win on this, while attempting to get ACPI timers going
> for mythtv.
>
> If a value is written to /proc/acpi/alarm, then shutdown -h works!
> This confirms my view that buggy bios firmware is the culprit.
<snip>

I just did:

echo 1 > /proc/acpi/alarm; shutdown -h now


and blink - it went down.  Thanks very much.

Don
--
Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net