Bug#270426: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: ACPI poweroff stopped working (Dell Inspiron 8600)

[Daniel Vollmer <maven@maven.de>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Version: 2.6.8-2
Severity: normal

The ACPI poweroff stopped working on my Dell Inspiron (Bios A10). It
was working fine in 2.6.7. The last line I see on the console when
shutting down, is "acpi_poweroff called". Rebooting still works as
expected.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-mh1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.74     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre5-6 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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Best regards,
    Daniel.                         http://www.maven.de
[It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!]