acpi not accepting command

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, E GCP wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
>> (1) Is acpid running?
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> Yes, it is running. I checked in Services and in the System Monitor
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>> (2) People have reported the problem you are seeing with immediate wakeups. 
>> In my script, the >suspend is initiated by
>> 
>> echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
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> That does not make a difference. Still ignores the command.
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>> That is supposed to be a workaround for this problem.
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> I once booted with APM=ON, would that had triggered a switch that doesn't 
> allow the computer to go to sleep?

Shouldn't.  Is apmd running?  What's the kernel line in /etc/grub/conf? 
Have you ever powered all the way off after that boot?

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> Thanks,
> egcp
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