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

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

I had a non-shutdown problem as well. I could tap the power switch and get 
some "suspend" messages and then a real shutdown, but not automatic. The 
thing used to work.

Somewhere along the line I commented out the following line in /etc/modules:
apm power_off=1

Restoring that line, the computer shuts down just fine (despite the fact that 
the bootup sequence does not like the acpi configuration).

On Saturday 17 April 2004 21:39, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 
wrote:
> 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.