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jozef00

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2008-10-12

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[SOLVED]Poweroff problem

Hello,

I use an fully updated Arch installation with kernel 2.6.32.4. When I poweroff my machine by giving as root the command "halt" I got after the last blue message that you get by shutting down, the following error:

Note: poweroff [2300] exited with preempt_count 2
/etc/rc.shutdown: line 146: 2300 Segmentation fault /sbin/poweroff -d -f -h -i

Before this error I got a lot of un understandable text.

I thought this was a ACPI problem and changed the ACPI setting from S1 to S3, but it didn't solve the problem. So I changed the ACPI setting back to S1. I also tried to disable ACPI, but that didn't solved the problem, so ACPI is still enabled.

Could someone help me?

Kind regards,

Jozef00

Last edited by jozef00 (2010-01-25 09:33:30)

dan.boff

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED]Poweroff problem

same here, seems to be a kernel bug

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/72451/

jozef00

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED]Poweroff problem

Hi dan.boff,

Thanks for your reply.
I read the submitted article, but for me as non programmer it is hard to understand. So do you know if there is a workaround available for this problem?

Kind regards,

Jozef00

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Re: [SOLVED]Poweroff problem

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/72451/raw/

Pull that in, and rebuild the kernel. Alternative: roll back to a previous kernel and wait till it's fixed upstream and packaged by the Arch devs.

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dan.boff

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED]Poweroff problem

the new kernel in testing (kernel 2.6.32-5) seems to have changed something. now I get another error.

it says only preempt count 2, the part about rc.shutdown doesn't appear

Last edited by dan.boff (2010-01-23 21:55:50)

jozef00

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED]Poweroff problem

Thank you all very much for your replies.
I will wait for a new upstream kernel that solves the problem. I will set the problem to solved, because there is a solution available.

Kind regards,

Jozef00