Bug#352891: linux-image-2.6.18-2-vserver-686: does not power off on shutdown

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-2-vserver-686
> Version: 2.6.18-5
> Followup-For: Bug #352891
> 
> this kernel also seems to fail to power off.
> 
> linux-image-2.6.18-2-486 (version 2.6.18-5) works fine, though.
> 
> perhaps this bug is related to: 
> 
> #378323: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: CONFIG_SMP=y keeps APM poweroff from working
> 
> as the -486 kernel does not have CONFIG_SMP set.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz