Re: won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

[Luke Reeves <luke@neuro-tech.net>]

My system periodically does this too; it's a Sony PCG-TR2 with ACPI and 
no APM bios.  Every one out of ten shutdowns, the system halts and just 
sits there with that message.

I'm pretty sure it's a kernel bug since ACPI is still flaky.  The kernel 
I'm using is 2.6.5.  You might want to check out the later 2.6.6-rc1 
kernel and see if anything changes.

	Luke Reeves
	http://www.neuro-tech.net/

Mike Chandler wrote:
> Debian testing, kernel-2.6.3-1-686-smp, pentium 4, @3.0Ghz--
> When I go to turn off the machine, it goes through all the screen messages as 
> usual, but won't turn off. (Need to hold in power switch for 5 seconds to 
> turn off.)
> The last two lines of messages are here:
>
> Power down.
> acpi_power_off called
>
> It has a American megatrends bios,
> and the settings are like this:
>
> ACPI Standby state - auto	
> Power Management/APM - enabled
>
> I have googled for this and came up with the problem, but no solution.
> Thanks!