On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote: > > >Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. > > > >The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system > >for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does > >turn off as it should! > > > > > Same board, same problem. I've tried all the fixes suggested in the > references without success. > > 2.8.15 did shut down. I'm hoping 2.8.17 or 2.8.18 will work again. > > My bios is 3.02. > > Don > > -- > Don.Hayward at pomobuli.net >
Just had a win on this, while attempting to get ACPI timers going for mythtv. If a value is written to /proc/acpi/alarm, then shutdown -h works! This confirms my view that buggy bios firmware is the culprit. On my system, I tried the command echo "2006-10-02 15:40:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm So it seems that the alarm must be set to a non-null value perhaps. I havent seen if the kernel does anything different because of this though. I am using bios 3.03. Its a bit of a wait till the 2.8 series kernels though. -). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]