Re: shutdown problem
subscriptions@rdegraaf.nl wrote:
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>
> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:51:21 +0200
> Arne Lange <arne.lange@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running Debian 3.1 Sarge on a IBM Thinkpad R51. I use kernel
>> 2.6.8-2-686.
>>
>> When i shutdown my notebook it goes down, the screen went black, and all
>> LEDs are off. But the fan still runs and doesn't want to stop. I have
>> got to press the powerbutton for 3 seconds to stop it.
>
> Shutdown? Do you mean you close the lid, or a shutdown from a software
> command?
>
> The place to look is ACPI.
>
It's _a_ place to look, but sounds to me like he simply never completed
shutdown.
What filesystems are you running? I hope they're journalling systems like
reiser or ext3. Does it run the journals when you reboot? The first place
to look is at the last thing that showed in syslog.
--
derek
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