To test this problem, I did a fresh debian/sid installation on my old IBM Thinkpad X30 laptop, and tried 'shutdown -h now'. It powered down as it should. It was using kernel version 2.6.17-1-686 and initscripts version 2.86.ds1-15. I used lsmod to verify that no acpi nor apm kernel modules were loaded, so I doubt either is involved.n
So I was wrong when I believed the kernel failed to power down on all machines currently. It seem to work on at least one machine. :) When your machine do 'shutdown -h now', what is the last message appearing on the screen? When I do it in qemu, I get these lines: Will now halt Shutdown: hda System halted. The first line is from init.d/halt, the second is from /sbin/halt, and the the last line is printed by the kernel in the reboot() call. Do you see these lines when your machine fail to power down? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
