2.6.34 kernel, and why trying to shut down reboots?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Robert Spanjaard wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 2010 17:09:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > anyone build a new 2.6.34 kernel based on the existing config file
> > yet and see how well it boots and runs?  i suspect that will be
> > tomorrow's project.
> >
> >   and not sure if i posted about it here but my 2.6.34-rc7 kernel
> > works fine on 10.04, *except* that trying to shut down my laptop
> > actually causes it to shutdown, then immediately reboot.  is that
> > known behaviour?  anyone else seen that with a custom-built
> > kernel?
>
> No, but 9.10 did the same on my laptop with every kernel update that
> came along. The 'funny' thing is that sometimes it _did_ shut down,
> but most times it just rebooted. I haven't tried 10.04 on it yet.

  mine appears to be consistent, not just some of the time but all of
the time.  if it persists with a new 2.6.34 kernel (and i have no
reason to believe it won't), i'll do what debugging i can.

rday

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