Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753746AbXJATut (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:50:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751738AbXJATum (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:50:42 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:57858 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbXJATul (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:50:41 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Santiago Garcia Mantinan Subject: Re: [PATCH] (repost) Fix SMP poweroff hangs Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:05:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Mark Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <46FC20B7.4000606@rtr.ca> <46FFDB29.9040400@rtr.ca> <20070930175446.GA2472@pul.manty.net> In-Reply-To: <20070930175446.GA2472@pul.manty.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710012205.14303.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 28 On Sunday, 30 September 2007 19:54, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > I'd say your problem is more of a distro issue, > > in that the method you are using to shutdown > > is not actually requesting "poweroff". > > > That last mess above ("System halted.") comes from kernel_halt(), > > rather than the expected message ("Power down.") from kernel_power_off(). > > > So, try using the "poweroff" command instead of "halt", > > or try using "halt -p". If neither of those work, > > Well it works ok with 2.6.22 powering off and saying so right before > powering off, with some references to ACPI. On 2.6.23-rc8 however it doesn't > seem to get that far. There was a bug in 2.6.23-rc8 that caused this to happen. It's been fixed in the later -git kernels (commits 2f3f22269bdf702311342c5d106dfdd7347d1c3e, 853298bc03ef65e3eb392f5d61265605214ee8fb). Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/