Halt, shutdown, reboot, etc... don't go all the way

FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

Hi!

I've been experimenting a problem with ACPI operations (I think they're called like that). The issue is that when my computer has been running for long (say "long" as for some hours), when I try to halt or reboot it, it starts shuting down terminating the processes and all that stuff but when it's supposed to finally power off, it ends up with a fuzzy image that stays and doesn't power off. It happens also with shutdown...
Maybe the time is not the factor but it's the only thing I've found related by now...

Any help? Thx!

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

is acpid running?
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FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

I don't know if this is the reight way to see that but if I type in "ps -e" nothing similar to acpid seems to be running.

Is that the way to see it? If it is... what can I do?

Thank u very much!

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

Ok! Thank you man... But I have a last question... Do I really need this? My computer isn't a laptop. I maybe confuse you saying ACPI in my first post when it wasn't... (I warned I didn't know if that was correct :S).

Thanks for your interest

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Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

of course you don't need to follow the whole power management guide if you don't have a laptop, but you do need acpid
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syg00 · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:47 am Post subject:

What kernel are you running - all this seemed to have been borked sometime around the 2.6.9 timeframe.
Later 2.6.10 seemed to have fixed it.

While I had the problem, I just used the "poweroff" command - was the only one that still worked.

FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

I'm running gentoo sources 2.6.12-r9 so might not bethe kernel issue.
I'l try emerging and running acpid

. Why doesn't gentoo do this automatically during installation? Or did I miss it?

Thx!

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

well I'll have to wait to see if ti finally powers off after some hours...
I hope this would decrease my proccesor temperature also as it gets pretty much higher when running Linux than Windows. Maybe is not related to this anyway. I'll let you know how acpid worked on my machine

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Thank you.

FuckingFreaky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 128

Hi again!

Sorry to write again but.. I did all with acpid (emerged it and added tu default run-level and all that), but the problem still remains. It's just the final step where it should poweroff the computer... Sometimes it does, sometimes doesn't. Any other idea?

Thank you!!!

fuzzythebear · Guru Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 317

I been wrestling with this for quite a while now too ..

It's going to " please standby while rebooting the system"
then just sits there .. no amount of waiting does any good ..

Does anyone know what it takes to power down or reboot
or have a really good faq / how-to to suggest ?

Im lost ! ..

( stil waiting for the promised reboot .. ; )

Ric

PoltheMol · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 50

maybe it works if you disable acpi completely and use apm instead ? Works fine for my laptop (can't use acpi due to buggs with wificardthingie)
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