Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does turn off as it should!
I did track the problem in the 2.6.12 kernel, writing to the mainboard LED and concluding that the kernel was indeed halting where it was supposed to in drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c, function acpi_enter_sleep_state, calling acpi_hw_register_write, but leaving fans and power on. This was about 12 months ago. I concluded it was a board problem, because the kernel software seemed to be doing everything according to spec. However in my experience attempting to install debian stable, I installed a 2.6.8 kernel, and this does power down correctly. I have noticed some discussions on this type of problem in the ubuntu forums: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/36158 https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/43961 Any comments or suggestions on this issue, would be grateful. Its just so tedious not being able to press the poweroff button and leave immediately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
