Re: Poweroff problem

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 00:47, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When running 'poweroff' my system does not power off. The last line
> > printed on the screen is "acpi_power_off called". My grub/menu.lst file
> > has no kernel options related to acpi or apm. After having searched the
> > net, I have also tried the following four different kernel option
> > combinations:
> >
> > acpi=off apm=on
> > acpi=off apm=real-mode-poweroff
> > acpi=ht
> > apic=ht
> >
> > but none of them makes the system power down. For the first two of
> > these, the last line printed on the screen was "System halted". I think
> > that was the case for the last two as well.
> >
> > It is interesting that the system managed to power off one time using no
> > grub/menu.lst kernel options, after having tried one of the acpi/apm
> > options above on a previous boot, and then pressed the reset button.
> >
> > Power off was working on this machine a a couple of years ago, also
> > running Debian (maybe Sid), with an earlier 2.6 kernel.
> >
> > My motherboard is an ASUS A7S333, with the newest BIOS version
> > (rev1006), and AMD Athlon XP2200+. The software is Debian Etch from
> > today. Thus I have kernel version 2.6.18-3-k7. Both 'acpid' and 'apmd'
> > are installed.
>
> I don't if this link is any use, but I found it the other day while trying to 
> fix another problem. I am not having this shutdown problem on Etch, but on an 
> FC5 install, and only with some kernels.
>
> It might be worth a look.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390547
>
> Nigel.

Thanks Nigel and 'macondo', your suggestion worked! I now have the 
kernel options

'acpi=off apm=power_off'

in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and

apm power_off=1

in /etc/modules. It works great. Thanks again :-)

Happy holidays from Norway,
Torquil Sørensen