On Fri, 19.11.10 10:05, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand(a)inf.utfsm.cl) wrote:
Try as I may, for some time now I can't get my machines to
poweroff. I've
got 3 machines affected: A Toshiba Satellite Pro U400, a Samsung N210
netbook and a white box old dual-core AMD64 (that one has an idiotic BIOS
that sometimes doesn't shutdown/poweroff properly, but now it is completely
consistent).
Here on the Toshiba I've looked more closely into the issue: If I run
poweroff (from the Gnome menu or by hand as root) the machine shuts down
(sort of): CapsLock still toggles the LED (even on an USB keyboard), I can
alt-F? to change ttys (even over USB), but there is no other reaction to
keypresses. No HDD activity indication, nothing. I have to press the power
switch a long time (a short press initiates soft shutdown, no reaction to
that) to poweroff. Nothing relevant shows up in /var/log/messages.
Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a
separate partition (really LVM2 volume).
See my comments on the bug you filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642347
The bug is actually in NEEDINFO state.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.