acpi_power_off called .... but does not shut down

[Jim Cornette]

Tom Coburn wrote:
> has anyone found a fix for the  acpi  problem in FC3 yet?
> 
> in Fedora Core 3, 
> when I run shutdown -h now
> 
> it tries to halt the system, but gets to:
> 
> power down.
> acpi_power_off called.
> 
> then just HANGS there.
> 
> has anyone found a fix for this yet?
> 
> just wondered.  I know there's a bugzilla report about it, but I was
> just wondering if anyone found a fix for it yet.
> 
> thanks.
> 

I have the problem also and am baffled with it not powering off the unit 
now. My logs did not show an lead to this problem.

There is a patch submitted or referenced in the bug report. If the patch 
works, then pushing out a conforming kernel might be in the works. I 
just hold the power button in on my ze4315us without hyperthreading and 
the computer powers down.

I hope that other acpi items are not effected as well. I would hate for 
thermal runaway to kill the box because of other broken items within acpi.

Jim

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