On Jan 6, 7:14pm, alex-goncha...@comcast.net (Alex Goncharov) wrote: -- Subject: Re: PR 42583: ACPI errors, HP DV6-1334US [Was: The imperfect beau
| ,--- You/chris...@astron.com (Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:42:12 +0000 (UTC)) ----* | | >Tried this again, on the laptop, submitting `halt -p' in an `xterm' | | >window displayed elsewhere -- the laptop doesn't power off, with the | | >old or new BIOS. | | | | Try 'shutdown -p now'. I've had problems with deadlocks when using halt -p | | due to processes not dying on time and the kernel getting stuck on their | | resources (or even panicking). | | On the laptop's console: | | halt -p => halt (Press any key to reboot) | shutdown -p now => ditto | | I.e. no luck. So it does not know how to powerdown through ACPI or it does not work. christos
