Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt on three different testing-boxes (two older desktops without ACPI and one laptop with ACPI). The computer just does not switch off. If I try to reboot it is also impossible, because the shutdown process stops at the same point wher

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Fromme
On 07.03. 22:58, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt > on three d

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So the question is: what package might be responsible that > entered testing for about three weeks and how can I get my > boxes working as expected again. Sysvinit migrated to testing on February 21, and was responsible for a similar error (#252547) fo

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Christian Fromme wrote: A friend of mine had the same problem once and IIRC he solved it by simply loading the apm module through /etc/modules. Well, the laptop is ACPI and if I'm not completely wrong ACPI replaces APM and I've read that I should not use APM and ACPI in para

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: Sysvinit migrated to testing on February 21, and was responsible for a similar error (#252547) for me a couple of years ago. However, the current sysvinit has no trouble shutting down my sid box. ~$ apt-cache policy sysvinit sysvinit: Installed: 2.

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: > >Sysvinit migrated to testing

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). Thanks fo the foreward but I'm afraid we might be on the wro

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Andreas Tille wrote: Thanks fo the foreward but I'm afraid we might be on the wrong track. I downgraded sysvinit on one of the machines (by chance the apm based) to apt-cache policy sysvinit sysvinit: Installed: 2.86.ds1-4 Candidate: 2.86.ds1-12 Version table: 2.86

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Andreas Tille wrote: > Are there any more hints what might stop the computer from doing > cleeen halt / reboot than apm/acpi or sysvinit. I just tried Yes, check for changes in /sbin/halt. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Yes, check for changes in /sbin/halt. As I said the problem also occures with the old /sbin/halt. Why should I check for changes between two non working versions? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBS

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt > on three different testing-boxes (two older desktops without ACPI > and one laptop with ACPI). The computer just does not switch off. > If I try to reboot it is also impossible, because the

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Dominique Dumont wrote: I humbly admit that I did not provide much information, I just hope to give you some more hint about this problem... Thanks for the hint even if I think we have a deeper problem here. I just hoped somebody would be able to give a hint about the pack

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-04-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). Yesterday I found out that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really the r

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-04-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My fallback plan is to stupidly revert the changes and reboot my box. > If it is working again whe found the problem but I would prefer a more > clever method than trial and error. Why is that a _fallback_ plan? It should be the first thing to try. It'

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-04-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: Why is that a _fallback_ plan? It should be the first thing to try. Well, if somebody tells me that the code I wrote fails in a certain manner it is very probable that I as the author know where to look. I expected the authors of the package that crea

Bug#359137: general: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: general Severity: important Hi, I tried to clarify in a discussion on debian-devel what package might be responsible for the problem I face on *all* three machines I updated to testing at a date I do not exactly remember in February this year (sorry for the vague description). I just co

Bug#359137: general: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-26 Thread Micha Lenk
Hi Andreas, uh, it's not that common to get general linux support using the debian BTS, isn't it? Andreas Tille wrote: > [...] > since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt > on three different testing-boxes (two older desktops without ACPI > and one laptop with ACPI). The comp

Re: Bug#359137: general: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Micha Lenk wrote: uh, it's not that common to get general linux support using the debian BTS, isn't it? I'm asking not for general Linux support. I just detected a bug after a weekly upgrade from testing to newer testing and I file it against general because nobody was ab