Incomplete shutdown on some LTSP clients (shutdown hangs/freezes)

[John Hupp]

Good news!

Richard Doyle from the LTSP mail list posted that I can add acpi=force 
to the end of the append command in 
/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/<arch>/pxelinux.cfg/default.

I did this on my Edubuntu and Lubuntu LTSP servers, and all clients 
tested then shut down fully.

The only remaining problem, which seems to this newbie like a bug rather 
than a feature, is what Richard Doyle points out (I have not it 
confirmed here, but his other info was dead-on-center): running 
ltsp-update-image will restore the original 
/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/<arch>/pxelinux.cfg/default, so this and any 
other edits are wiped out.

And I still have a related secondary question: Since acpi=force 
indicates that ACPI has to run on the client and not just on the server, 
how can I verify that ACPI is indeed running on the client?  Someone 
suggested looking at the output of dmesg on the client for results that 
contain "ACPI," but it seems to me that this will just report the boot 
messages from the server, not the client.

A big thank-you to all who contributed to solving the original primary 
problem.  Special thanks to Richard Doyle from the LTSP mail list and 
Steve Yorvyk from this list.

On 9/5/2012 5:56 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> VERY intriguing.
>
> Anyone know how to set an equivalent parameter for LTSP clients?
>
> [Marco Muller posted to the LTSP a solution that did not work for 
> him.  See 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net/msg40651.html, 
> but he reports that he edited
>         /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default
> to add
>         append ro initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/nbd0 
> init=/sbin/init-ltsp quiet splash acpi=force plymouth:force-splash 
> vt.handoff=7 nbdroot=:ltsp_amd64
> and nobody posted a reply.]
>
> And in connection with that configuration question (OK, I'm really 
> showing my newbie stripes here), how do I verify whether ACPI is running?
>
> On 9/3/2012 4:15 PM, Yorvyk wrote:
>> On 03/09/12 17:07, Yorvyk wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Some reading matter that may be of help:
>>>
>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-306.html
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/eug-lug@efn.org/msg16221.html
>>> http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/
>>>
>>> I have a couple of machines that exhibit this problem and will be 
>>> trying
>>> the various suggestions from the above this evening.
>>>
>> In my case the problem was rectified by adding 'acpi=force' to the 
>> boot params.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve
>>
>>
>




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