Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

Bill Stoye skiffworks at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 23 17:34:21 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 08:17 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > I have tried the following parameters in Grub at bootup: "noapic",
> > "pci=noacpi", "acpi=off", "acpi=force" and "nolapic"; I have been
> > viewing and trying to follow any email that sounded like it pertained to
> > this shutdown problem; Shutdown still hangs at "acpi power off called"
> > 
> 
> it probably doesn't directly apply to your problem, but some older
> desktop/laptop had to use apm instead of acpi to get a proper
> poweroff/shutdown (simply add the word "apm" in the file
> /etc/modules).   But that was in systems where there was no acpi,
> which I don't think is your problem here.

Thanks Daniel;  I have 'apm' set at the moment, it doesn't shutdown.
Bill





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