Re: shutdown problem

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

> > > 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.
>
> 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.

I had the same problem on my Thinkpad R51. The simple solution is NOT to 
use the default kernel. On any of the different, but more recent 
self-compiled kernels I tried, the problem disappeared. Seems to be a 
bug in the Bios or in the kernel source or in the packaging of 2.6.8 in 
debian.

Johannes