Re: 2.2-pre6 APM_POWER_OFF doesn't work on Gateway Solo 2100

Stephen Rothwell (Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:44:02 +1100 (EST)


> From: Jim Phillips <jim@ks.uiuc.edu>
>
> On my Gateway Solo 2100 with a 2.2.0-pre6 kernel and
> CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y the machine doesn't power down after shutdown.
>
> The rest of APM appears to function normally. The last two lines
> displayed on the console are:
>
> The system is halted
> System halted.
>
> This used to work with the 2.0 kernels. Thanks for looking into this.
> Please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to this list.

Please update your sysvinit to a recent one (I run 2.76) and then
read the man page for halt or poweroff and then check your init
scripts to make sure that the last thing donw when halting is
halt -d -f -i -p (or similar).

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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