After a lot of work, and much help at the kernel level from Alexey Starikovskiy, the solution turned out to be using
chkconfig --del to turn off all of these: acpi, acpid, harddrake, haldaemon, wltool, messagebus, mandi and also to move asus_acpi.ko out of the /lib/modules tree. I have no idea why the asus module was loading (this being a Tyan motherboard) but it was. Along the way, with various combinations of the above services turned on I observed some incredibly bizarre misbehavior on this system. While logged onto the console (not in X11) either "reboot" or "poweroff" would often lock at "Sending all processes the KILL signal...", which is killall5. Once or twice it locked at the message before, "Sending all processes the TERM signal...". In one instance it rebooted and then crashed in the BIOS. With all of these services disabled it seems to run reliably now. Additionally, when acpid was running it was possible to shutdown the system by pushing the front panel button, but then the next "poweroff" would lock at the "KILL signal" message. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
