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baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

pc won't shut down with 2.6.20-3 ... troubles

i've been using acpi since 2.6.3 and it worked fine until 2.6.19.2.
but with 2.6.20 after i shut down from xfce via hal, from gdm or as root by typing "halt", the system restarts when it should stop.
the harddisk spins in a strange way at the restart, as if it tried to shut down but then gets restarted. when i actually want to restart the system, those spinups don't exist.

i have a p4 on an asus p4b800-e board with intel chipset.
so far i've tried acpi=off apm=power-off in different combinations. with only acpi=off, the system keeps running after i tried to shutdown after the message "system halted" and i have to press the power button to power it off. when i add apm=power-off, the last message i get is "powered down" and then the system just stays there. again, i have to press the power button.

i have the latest bios for the mainboard and it worked fine until i installed 2.6.20. when i downgrade to 2.6.19.2, the pc shuts down as before. shutdown from windows works fine too.

btw, when i shut down from within xfce, i can't see the output messages anymore. i only get strange graphic errors from the X server. this also never happened with 2.6.19.2 and previous. And using evdev with 2.6.20 makes X segfault at startup.. so far 2.6.20 has caused nothing but troubles for me, whereas all the previous kernels never did anything strange like the latest

tbuitenh

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Registered: 2004-03-08

Posts: 55

Re: pc won't shut down with 2.6.20-3 ... troubles

I have exactly the same problem, on different hardware (pentium M, don't know what kind of board)

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baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: pc won't shut down with 2.6.20-3 ... troubles

slax found a patch which i tested and tpowa added it to 2.6.20-4, so the problem ist fixed with that version.