Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:22:38AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 28 December 2008 03:28, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:06:50PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
> > > Version: 2.6.25-7
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > I'm running this kernel on my EeePC 701.  When I tell the system to halt
> > > it shuts down almost everything (the screen goes off) and then hangs.  It
> > > leaves one LED on and produces some heat as the only indications that
> > > it's not off.
> >
> > Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?
> 
> Yes.  I don't think I've tested the very latest kernel package (the one that 
> came out a couple of days ago), but the one before that had this happen.
> 
> It doesn't seem to happen all the time.  In the past it had seemed to happen 
> every time (but perhaps I had just got unlucky), now it seems to fail to halt 
> about 70% of the time.

Could it be that the presence of the SD card makes the difference? If so,
this would be a duplicate of #496540.

Cheers,
        Moritz