Re: chronic "powerd: shutdown execution failed" problem on U10
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2003 11:02:32 -0400
> Steve Pacenka <s.pacenka@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:53, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:54:24 -0400
> > > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sounds to me like the power button on the front is stuck or something.
> > >
> > > That's my guess too. The only time powerd should ever try to
> > > execute shutdown() is when the power button interrupt arrives.
> >
> > Dave (and Ben), thanks for assistance.
>
> So here's a question, if you push the button or hold the front panel
> button down, does that change the behavior?
Given that the shutdown-flood behavior is intermittent, I'm not sure how
to test this.
I'll disconnect the button entirely if that is possible without clipping
wires.
> To be honest, Solaris ought to be doing the same thing to you
> on this system.
Or NetBSD or whatever else, too; understood. GNU/Linux is the only OS I
have installed.
Kernel patches do not seem to be a good use of anyone's time except mine
to deal with this, presuming that this is a hardware failure.
If I disable powerd in the kernel, will that have any side-effects other
than losing the ability to use keyboard and front panel buttons for
power-off? I assume that a UPS would still behave since the OS would be
shut down but the box would be powered on until the UPS dropped power
via software command or its battery was exhausted.
Again, I appreciate your help.
-- SP
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