Re: poweroff doesn't turn off power

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:45:18 +0000

gator@cs.tu-berlin.de said:
> I have some machines that I need to be able to power down via APM.
> Somhow, I can't get this to work: "halt -p" or "poweroff" will halt
> the system, but without turning off the power.

Do you have ACPI enabled?

If so, you may need to disable it - its power-off method will override the
APM-provided power-off routine, and even if the ACPI power-off routine fails
to work, it won't fall back to the APM one.

I posted a patch a few days ago which fixed this by keeping a list of possible
power-off functions, to be attempted in turn until one of them actually works.

--
dwmw2






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