Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Bill Stoye]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 15:18 -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:
> Bill Stoye wrote:
> 
> ><SNIP>
> >
> 
> >I added "noapic", it wouldn't shut down. (tried twice)
> >When I added "pci=noacpi" and "acpi=off", boot hung at the following
> >line: "ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 to 64"; there were a lot of strange
> >messages I didn't recognize that streamed by, including segmentation
> >fault and a number of failure/error messages.
> >Bill
> >  
> >
> I was having a similar problem with my IBM Thinkpad, it was resolved 
> with the following
> 
> acpi=force
> 
> Note it is case sensitive. After reading the dmesg, I found that Ubuntu 
> was not starting the acpi because my bios was older than 1999. Adding 
> that option fixed that and now it shuts down properly.

'acpi=force' doesn't work either.

Bill
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> Darren
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