FC5, And FC6 won't shutdown completely
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 11 14:47:49 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 02:07 -0800, elk dolk wrote:
>
>
> Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > Both myself, and Aaron Konstram are having problems with the
> complete shutdown
> > of our machines. I am running FC5, and since some updates to
> FC5, kernels
> > later than the original kernel installed from the CDROM
> refuse to shutdown
> > cmpletely. The shutdown messages reach "power off" then
> nothing, and you have
> > to press, and hold the start button on the PC to switch the
> machine off. When
> > shutdown reaches the power off stage, I hear the harddrives
> spin down, but
> > the machine is still active.
> >
> > these ar the kernels on my FC5:
> > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (this one shutsdown ok)
> > but all of these refuse to shutdown completely:
> > 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
> > 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5
> > 2.6.18-1.2200_FC5
> > 2.6.18-1.2239_FC5
> > and
> > 2.6.18-1.2257_FC5
> >
> > I have been googling, and found suggestions to use "lapic" .
> I'm not sure how
> > to use it. I tried at the grub prompt for the kernel, using
> "lapic", or
> > lapic=on" (without the double quotes) , but no success.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestion how to use lapic, or even if this
> might solve the
> > problem?
>
> All you need to do is append "lapic" to the kernel line in
> grub:
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> quiet lapic
>
> (all on one line). That may not solve your issue. You may need
> to use
> "noapic" instead:
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> quiet noapic
>
>
> My box has the same problem but appending lapic or noapic does not
> solve the problem !
>
Doesn't work on my machine either.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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