Hey garrone -- I finally got around to shutting my system down.
Confirming that your discovery worked perfectly.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, garrone wrote:
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote:
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote:
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!
<snip>
Just had a win on this, while attempting to get ACPI timers going
for mythtv.
If a value is written to /proc/acpi/alarm, then shutdown -h works!
This confirms my view that buggy bios firmware is the culprit.
<snip>
I just did:
echo 1 > /proc/acpi/alarm; shutdown -h now
and blink - it went down. Thanks very much.
Don
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Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net
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