On 4/28/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen it a lot on thin clients -- you press the shutdown screen in the > bottom left corner and the machine appears to freeze (though it actually > just didn't manage to blank the screen during shutdown). Seems that linux > can't completely power down some machines (win2k has similar problems with > quite a few machines). > > If you mean it gets right to the end of the shutdown sequence, disks are > unmounted and you just need to power it off, this is possibly the same > situation and it's not dangerous -- I'd expect it to be an old piece of > hardware. In the days before acpi, one could frequently fix this by doing > sudo modprobe apm > to load the apm power management tool. Though I suspect you need to remove > all the acpi stuff first nowadays. > > Gavin
I had a problem with 6.10 where it wouldn't completely shut down on Dell 210Ls SOME of the time (maybe 10% of the time, which with 150 workstations is rather annoying), it would get to the point where the light would normally turn off, but instead the light would stay on and a fan would either turn on or speed up to the point where it was audible. Rather a pain, I filed a bug but after asking me to attach the output of several commands I haven't seen much activity on that. Do you think using APM might help in that situation? -- -Simón A. Ruiz -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
