Power button causes system to hang.

ignislupis · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 19

When ever I push the power button to shut down the system, it starts the halt script and then freezes. No keyboard, mouse, nothing. It will shutdown normally if I use the menu option in KDE or use poweroff from the console.

After upgrading a couple of times I am now at 2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I have enabled everything in the kernel that is relevant (I haven't tried the laptop specific stuff).

I have re-emerged sysvinit, and acpid with each kernel.

If I boot from the livecd the power button shuts down normally.

I have hal and dbus running but if I stop them (i.e. /etc/init.d/hal stop) and then push the power button it still locks up.

I know it has worked in the past but I don't know when it broke.

Most of the posts I've found have related to shutdown not working at all or a wrongly configured acpid event scripts. As far as I can tell everyting is correctly configured because the last few lines of the syslog say that it completes the process.