Re: Running Debian Lenny on PowerMac G5

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:12 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 01:25 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
>
> > 2. Restart works ok, but shutdown does not work properly (from gnome
> > or from terminal). The last messages I get are:
> > [1990.045234] Disabling non-boot CPUs
> > [1990.053558] Cannot set affinity for irq 16
> > I must then press the power button. If I wait longer, the fans  
> > start to
> > be quite loud (again I had this problem also with another similar
> > PowerMac G5)
>
> I think this is a kernel bug which is fixed in newer kernels.



Which kernel versions are supposed to have this fixed?

I have a similar problem (but, confusingly, intermittent -- sometimes  
it fails, sometimes not) on a dual-processor smp G4 box running Lenny.
"uname -a" says:
>         Linux 2.6.26-2-powerpc-smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 02:55:28 UTC  
> 2010 ppc

Is there a fixed smp kernel available from backports?

Thanks!

Rick