Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Markus Kolb]

On 09.10.2004 01:49, Bill Stoye wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:50 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>  
> 
>>>>Try booting with (each individually) "noapic", "pci=noacpi", "acpi=off" and
>>>>see if any of those help.
> 
> 
> I tried the above parameters plus acpi=force as suggested by Darren
> Critchley; still unable to shutdown/power off without holding the power
> button for ten seconds.
> 
> Bill

What does the kernel report about ACPI during bootup?
You can run the command dmesg as the first command after boot to see 
kernel messages again.

Is it possible that your computer doesn't support ACPI?
Maybe you should try APM.

Markus