--- Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jim Angstadt wrote: > > --- Mike Simons <many snips>
> > Did s-u-o to get a know starting point, then: > > 1. hung after ...TERM..., phy pwr off, phy > pwr on > > 2. clean to "power down", reboot > > 3. clean to "power down", off > > 4. clean to "power down", off > > 5. hung after ...TERM..., phy pwr off, phy > pwr on > > woah. I don't remember you say the machine > has powered off once since > this thread started... I just skimmed over your > messages again and > I see one other case that it seems that it > powered off without you > touching the power button. > > Jim, > > Okay, I need to verify my understanding... > > - are you saying? (yes or no) > > of the five times you tried, > twice it actually turned off power, > twice it got stuck before killing two of > the processes, and > once it rebooted instead of powering off Yes. > > - the most recent tests have all be done > without X starting up? (yes or no) Yes. > > You have been shutting the machine down > dozens of times since this > thread started... > > - the machine never powered itself off (beside > the two times above > and the one time I mentioned) since you > started this thread? > (yes or no) Yes. > > - the machine *did* power itself off the three > times mentioned above? > (yes or no) Yes. > Jim Angstadt wrote: > > --- Mike Simons > > > - Paste the output from: cat /proc/cmdline > > > - Paste the output from: cat /proc/apm > > > > AFTER > > ro apm=realmode_power_off root=LABEL=/ > > hdc=ide-scsi > > 1.16 1.2 0x07 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ? > ^^^^ > this says that APM is enabled on your > machine... > > it says your APM supports 16 bit, 32 bit, and > APM_IDLE calls slow the > CPU clock. > > linux/include/linux/apm_bios.h > === > /* Results of APM Installation Check */ > #define APM_16_BIT_SUPPORT 0x0001 > #define APM_32_BIT_SUPPORT 0x0002 > #define APM_IDLE_SLOWS_CLOCK 0x0004 > #define APM_BIOS_DISABLED 0x0008 > #define APM_BIOS_DISENGAGED 0x0010 > === > > Mike Simons wrote: > > Jim Angstadt wrote: > > - Were any settings in the BIOS changed in > the last few months? No. > > > > It is possible that if APM is disabled in > the BIOS that the power off > > feature would stop working. > > I didn't see your reply... any changes to > BIOS settings in a long time? My only changes -ever- to the bios were initial date, time, and maybe boot sequence (cannot recall). > I have *one* more set of things to try, using > grub add the boot > option "single", and try the "s-u-o" thing a > few times, your can > try "single apm=realmode_power_off", a few > times too. Let me know > if the power goes off any of those ways. > > The "single" option should prevent the > machine from starting most > every service that would normally start up... > this should prevent > most every kernel module from being loaded > (check "lsmod") and > should prevent practically any services from > starting up > (check "ps aux")... > > Report back if any of those two settings > result in reliable poweroff. The results are mixed: With just 'single' added to boot parms: 1. s-u-o led to off 2. s-u-o led to reboot 3. s-u-o led to off 4. s-u-o led to off 5. s-u-o led to off 6. s-u-o led to off With 'single apm=realmode_power_off' added: 1. s-u-o led to off 2. s-u-o led to off 3. s-u-o led to reboot 4. s-u-o led to off 5. s-u-o led to off 6. s-u-o led to off On single 1, I ran lsmod and saved it, see below. Every other single and single+apm lsmod had an identical putput. I also ran ps aux on single 1. see below. I did a visual scan of ps aux for each subsequent run and they all looked the same. But, it was not an item-by-item, like I did for lsmod. To satisfy my own curosity, I ran grub> halt six times in a row. All resulted in a power off. lsmod output: Module Size Used by Not tainted ide-scsi 10512 0 scsi_mod 107176 1 [ide-scsi] ide-cd 33608 0 cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd] printer 8992 0 (unused) mousedev 5524 0 (unused) keybdev 2976 0 (unused) hid 22244 0 (unused) input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid] usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused) ehci-hcd 17480 0 (unused) usbcore 77024 1 [printer hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd] ext3 70368 6 jbd 52212 6 [ext3] ps aux output: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.7 0.1 1328 416 ? S 09:29 0:04 init [S] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kapmd] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 09:29 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [bdflush] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kupdated] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 68 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [khubd] root 263 0.0 0.2 1656 632 ? S 09:29 0:00 minilogd root 289 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 290 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 291 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 292 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 293 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:29 0:00 [kjournald] root 383 0.0 0.1 1328 416 tty1 S 09:29 0:00 init [S] root 384 0.0 0.4 2268 1200 tty1 S 09:29 0:00 /bin/sh root 392 0.0 0.2 2540 624 tty1 R 09:38 0:00 ps aux __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
