FC5, And FC6 won't shutdown completely

[Kam Leo]

On 1/14/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:13 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > On 1/11/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >  using "poweroff" just stalls at "Power down".
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > This problem also occurs in OpenSUSE 10.2. The SUSE developers have
> > > pinned it down to the incorporation of SMP into a single kernel
> > > package and not getting the proper switches/options enabled for
> > > uniprocessor systems.
> >
> > Same problem here with an old PII-400 laptop that I just upgraded from
> > FC4 to FC6. Do you perhaps have a link to .where the SUSE folks are
> > discussing this issue?
> >
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221667
>
> There's new info in the bug report since I first accessed it. I need
> to try adding "apm=power_off" to grub on my K6-2 box to see if that
> fixes the problem. I'll let the list know if that's the cure for FC.

Adding "apm=power_off" to grub fixes the shutdown problem I
encountered using OpenSUSE 10.2 and FC-6 for my two old boxes. (One
with an Asus SP97-V motherboard, AMD K6-2 CPU, Award BIOS. The other
is a Gateway with 600 MHz P3 600 MHz CPU, PHoenix BIOS.)

Hope this helps solves your problem, too.