From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262972AbTDFORi (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:17:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262976AbTDFORi (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:17:38 -0400 Received: from supreme.pcug.org.au ([203.10.76.34]:51888 "EHLO pcug.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262972AbTDFORh (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:17:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:27:03 +1000 From: Stephen Rothwell To: "Udo A. Steinberg" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: poweroff problem Message-Id: <20030407002703.16993dc4.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20030406155814.68c5c908.us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <20030405060804.31946.qmail@webmail5.rediffmail.com> <20030406233319.042878d3.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20030406155814.68c5c908.us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:58:14 +0200 "Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > It's not a BIOS problem here. halt works pretty well with Linux-2.5.66 here. > It's most likely an ACPI problem. What happens here is that the code to power > down actually does not manage to turn the machine off, instead after a while > the NMI watchdog kicks in and the kernel oopses. I was asuming the original report was from a kernel using APM not ACPI. Did 2.4.2 have ACPI? -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ APM Maintainer