Re: [SLE] Can't power down with SuSE 9.0

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:22:21 -0400
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    I was able to clear the problem, by setting the BIOS to the default
    values and reconfiguring.

    tnx jk

    BandiPat wrote:
    > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 03:18 pm, James Knott included these bytes:
    >
    >>BandiPat wrote:
    >>
    >>>On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:54 pm, James Knott wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>I've discovered that I cannot power down my sytem, except with the
    >>>>power switch. I've tried halt, halt -p, shutdown, telinit 0 etc.,
    >>>>and the result is always the same. Instead of the computer turning
    >>>>off or even halting, it always reboots. As I'm running this
    >>>>computer on a UPS, this is a critical matter. Power down worked
    >>>>fine on this computer, when running Red Hat 7.3. The mother board
    >>>>is an ASUS A&V266-E & Athlon XP 1700+ CPU.
    >>>>
    >>>>tnx jk
    >>>
    >>>=============
    >>>
    >>>Isn't this usually attributed to ACPI? Is that module loaded with
    >>>your kernel? That's the only time I have had to turn a computer
    >>>off manually, when ACPI wasn't loaded or the motherboard has a
    >>>faulty or buggy version of it.
    >>
    >>According to boot.msg, ACPI was loaded and ps aux shows it to be
    >>running.
    >
    > ==========
    >
    > Odd, ok, so it's never worked since you installed SuSE? What about your
    > BIOS settings? Any possibility that the settings got whacked or you
    > mistakenly changed something there?

    I've checked the BIOS settings, but don't see anything wrong there.

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