Can't Shutdown (ACPI Poweroff problem)

Tod Merley todbot88 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 19:22:07 UTC 2006


On 9/19/06, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
<fedora-gmane.00003 at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
>
> > If I boot to runlevel 3, I can shut down and power off no problem, but
> > if I boot to level 5 (any of Gnome, KDE or FluxBox), the shutdown
> > proceeds (without error) as far as "called ACPI power off" ... but
> > doesn't actually power off.
>
> I've isolated the problem. It's dbus not exiting properly at shutdown.
>
> See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207235
>
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> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5
>  05:25:51 up 94 days,  5:42,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
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Hi Keith G. Robertson-Turner!

What happens if you update dbus?
# A source website apparently
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

Good Hunting

Tod




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