[Bug 36158] Re: [Bug 36158] Re: System does not power off on shutdown

[Sakari Vaelma]

> >A large number of these problems may revolve around buggy bios that a
> crashing when they are told to power off. If at all possible check
> whether there is a newer BIOS for your motherboard (of course flashing
> your BIOS is done at your own risk etc.)

_Could_ be, as that computer is some six years old. But the strange
thing is, that it worked well in Breezy!

> I diseagree here on this explonation, as I reported before this buggy behaviour goes and come back on different kernel versions, the 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 are at fault too, really feels more like a change badly done in the kernel than a hardware related trouble.
> And btw I have the last available firmware and the result is the same.

So it is kernel-dependant problem, not init script or something like
that?

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System does not power off on shutdown
https://launchpad.net/bugs/36158