shutdown problems

[MixMax]

I can't seem to get my box to shutdown correctly. I've tryed using commands shutdown -h now, shutdown now and init 0. With all of them it stops in the same spot at the very end of the shutdown prosess. All I get is a message saying "no more prosess left in this runlevel".

I use ACPI and I get no errors about ACPI in dmesg. Somewhere here was a message to coment out the stop section in net.lo script but that didn't work neighter. I've emerged baselayout menytimes with no luck.

I'm running out of ideas. It has worked but for some reason not anymore

[ops]

How old is you'r computer? I know there has been some problems with acpi on older computers. Mabe you should run apm? Worked better with apm on my old computer...
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[MixMax]

It's quite new, I've got AMD 64 but running 32bit ATM. I have two different gentoo enviroments that I use and on the other one it works just fine. It kind of looks like I'm missing some command or something from the scripts couse it just says there is no more in that runlevel and halts.

[Let_Me_Be]

Try to enable APM, I had a similar problem, and enabling APM helped.

[syg00]

Try

[MixMax]

Thank you for your ideas unfortunetly they didn't work here. I'm still getting the exact same error

[cazort]

I've been having a similar problem. My system seems to shutdown properly, and then it gets to the "Power Down" part, and just sits there--I have to hold the button in to turn it off. I know it's not a hardware problem because Windows XP (which I have since canned) shut down properly on the same machine. It's frustrating, because I've spent a good deal of time trying to solve this--compiling in and out various support. Right now I have both ACPI and APM in.

My system that has this problem is a compaq S3200NX. I have also installed it on a slightly newer system, also a Compaq, also an athlon-xp, for a friend, and had the exact same problem. In both cases we were using the 2.6.10 kernel.

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Is this a kernel problem? Where does the support for the power down instruction come from? Is it built into the ACPI support for the kernel? Or APM? Does one technically need one or both of these? Shouldn't the power down thing be built-in somewhere else?

Sorry for all the questions...I'm just really unclear about how this whole thing works so I don't even know where to go to start solving it.

[dummy1]

Check your shutdown/halt and reboot in /sbin. I was trying out initng lately and it replaced them. Emerging sysvinit fixed the poweroff for me, but now I get 'unimplemented initreqest' when trying to reboot.

[cazort]

Nope. This doesn't help; it's the same whether I use "halt", "shutdown -h" or "poweroff", and I haven't replaced them. Perhaps *should* I replace them? Is there a particular package I could update that would fix this problem?

[nilnilseptium]

Having the same problem as cazort. But what really sucks me is that I had it working right and then messed something up. It's making me so AAAARRRGH!!!!!!!!
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[downey]

Check your kernel config, you need to have CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y set. You also need to have APCI set as well. You also can probably get it to work if you use APM as well.

Hope that helps.

[royw]

I'm also experiencing the "no more prosess left in this runlevel" problem. I noticed that it is not finding /sbin/halt. When I looked, guess
what, /sbin/halt is missing. I had installed initng to play with but am bogged down in a grub problem so haven't done anything with initng.
When I queried eix for sysvinit, it shows as not installed. Is installing sysvinit the correct method to recover /sbin/halt?

TIA,
Roy
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