Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 02:56:48 EST


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just does
> not power off.

I've been struggling with an identically-manifesting regression on one of
my test machines for a week. It's due to softlockup changes, and setting
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=n "fixes" it.

It sounds unlikely, but I'd suggest that you see if it's the same on your
machine so we're not both chasing the same bug.

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