linpus lite shutdown don't work

[andyp]

Hi guys
I need your help please. Ihave an aspire one with linpus lite. Shutdown or sleep doesn't work, always loops in restart.
I changed notification manager xfce to notification manager without xfce ,no change. I run recovery cd ,no change. I format hard drive with kill disk and installed new linpus still the same.
I get the error message:

shutdown -h new
/sbin/shutdown: line 3: /home/user/.gsynaptics/syn.conf: Permission denied
sed: couldn't open temporary file /home/user/.gsynaptics//sedvnaTv3: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/usr/bin/xfce4-session-logout': Permission denied
ltris: no process killed
/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1278: Cannot open /etc/alsa/asound.state for writing: Permission denied
Sorry, only the superuser can change the Hardware Clock.
rm: cannot remove `/.autofsck': Permission denied
mount: only root can do that
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
/sbin/shutdown: line 34: /sys/power/fastpoweroff: Permission denied
shutdown: you must be root to do that!


I'm new with linux and need your help don't know what to do anymore!
Thank's
Andy

[Hal343]

I'm not sure what type of root account linpus has, so here are 3 commands that may work. You will need to give your password(sudo) or root password(su, gksu)

sudo shutdown -h now

gksu shutdown -h now

su shutdown -h now

Hopefully, one of those will work.

[andyp]

I found out if I'm on battery it works, if I'm on power I still have the same problem.
???????????

[Hal343]

That is weird. It seems as though it's only activated on battery power, and Acer decided that it doesn't need to sleep when plugged in. I'm not sure where to look to change it, but it should have something to do with acpi. Check the bios to see if it can be enabled at all times.

[andyp]

Hi Hal
I know what acpi is but don't know how to find it in bios I'm not an expert. In the bios all is enabled. I flash the bios from v3309 to v3308 to give it a try but this doesn't change anything either.
I'm sure you're right is not in the software but where?
Slowly I become crazy with Acer.

[Hal343]

Since I don't have an Acer one, I'm totally unfamiliar with linpus, but from what I hear it is a poor distribution of linux. So if I had one, I'd probably install easy peasy or Ubuntu notebook remix instead. However, somewhere in the root filesystem, there is something dealing with acpi, maybe under /proc or /etc. Finding it will take a while, but to get suspend working properly you will need to find it and copy what it shows, so we can figure out if it can be changed.

[andyp]

Thank you I will try my best. I hear acer$one (is based on ubunto) should be good and easy, I will try to install it.
Thanks again
Andy

[andyp]

Hi Hal
Can't access acpi folder need nautilus manager but if I try to download I get a error message.
What I can see under acpi/etc is this:
/var/log/acpid {

missingok

notifempty

size=64k

postrotate

/etc/init.d/acpid condrestart >/dev/null || :

endscript

}

# sample configuration file for gpm-root
# edit it to please your taste....

button 1 {
name "ttys"

"" f.nop
"login on a new tty" f.mktty
"" f.nop
"tty 1" f.jptty "1"
"tty 2" f.jptty "2"
"tty 3" f.jptty "3"
"tty 4" f.jptty "4"
"" f.nop
"tty 5" f.jptty "5"
"tty 6" f.jptty "6"
"tty 7" f.jptty "7"
"tty 8" f.jptty "8"
"" f.nop
"more of them..." {

"tty 9" f.jptty "9"
"tty 10" f.jptty "10"
"tty 11" f.jptty "11"
"tty 12" f.jptty "12"
"" f.nop
"tty 13" f.jptty "13"
"tty 14" f.jptty "14"
"tty 15" f.jptty "15"
"tty 16" f.jptty "16"
"" f.nop
"more of them..." {
"tty 17" f.jptty "17"
}
}

}

button 2 {
name "system status"
foreground red
background black
border yellow
head bright yellow

"" f.nop
"%b %d %Y" f.time
"%H:%M" f.time
"" f.nop
"load: " f.load
"free:" f.free
"" f.nop
"report disk usage to ~/du" f.bgcmd "du ~ | sort -rn > ~/du"
"print mail headers to tty" f.bgcmd
"grep '^From ' /var/spool/mail/$USER | tail"
}

button 3 {
name "far ttys"

foreground black
background red
border bright yellow
head bright yellow

"tty 9" f.jptty "9"
"tty 10" f.jptty "10"
"tty 11" f.jptty "11"
"tty 12" f.jptty "12"
"" f.nop

"tty 13" f.jptty "13"
"tty 14" f.jptty "14"
"tty 15" f.jptty "15"
"tty 16" f.jptty "16"
"" f.nop

# I use this to halt and reboot the system, but it isn't wise to put it
# in widely accessible boxes.
#
# "----" f.nop
# "" f.nop
# "halt" f.bgcmd "/sbin/shutdown -h now"
# "reboot" f.bgcmd "/sbin/shutdown -r now"

Can you do something with this?
Thanks for all your effort
Andy

[Hal343]

My filesystem has this in var/log/acpid:

[Sun Aug 16 07:48:02 2009] logfile reopened
[Thu Aug 20 23:43:33 2009] exiting
[Sat Dec 31 16:00:59 2005] starting up
[Sat Dec 31 16:00:59 2005] 74 rules loaded
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:02 2005] client connected from 5831[111:123]
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:02 2005] 1 client rule loaded
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:05 2005] client connected from 6002[0:0]
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:05 2005] 1 client rule loaded
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:07 2005] client connected from 6002[0:0]
[Sat Dec 31 16:01:07 2005] 1 client rule loaded

I guess that the difference between Ubuntu and linpus is huge.

[Hal343]

That is a bit more voluminous than my Mint laptop, but I don't see anything in it to help us either. Mint is more like the Ubuntu one I posted above. I couldn't find anything remotely like that on my AntiX installation. I'm afraid I've reached the level of my own incompetence on this one.