shutdown wont power off

[Krendoshazin]

if you say

modprobe apm

then the module will be loaded, and then the pc powers off like you may be used to ...

Then, edit (vi) the file

/etc/rc.d/rc.modules

and there you find a section like

#### APM support ###
# APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
# techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops.
#/sbin/modprobe apm

Just remove the #-sign in front of the line
#/sbin/modprobe apm

this worked for me, btw i use the command poweroff to shutdown my computer

[dark_lord_kodd]

cool, i'l give it a try like that.

If i modprobe apm and then do shutdown -h tho, i get a segmenation fault after

power down

has been sent. but will try it with poweroff.

Thanks

[PenGUiN_6_1]

It is possible to use this command in Slackware:

reboot

This will cause the system to 'KILL' (stop) all of the processes and it will shut down and restart. I hope this helps; I know in version 3.5 of Slackware (the version I am running), it works to restart the system. I had found trouble with the command:

shutdown

because it seems to present a list of options to me instead ofd shutting down the system.

[dylunio]

try the

shutdown -r

to restart, and

shutdown -h

to halt the system.

dylunio

[tsphan]

i found in slackware 10.0, that reboot would restart automatically, but halt wouldn't.

so i recompiled apm support, wouldn't work, recompiled with acpi, didn't work. While I had ACPI, i decided to type "dmesg" and it said something about acpi not being on and that i need to append "acpi=force" to my LILO. I did that and my computer has been shutdowning by itself EVER SINCE.

That's why I asked you to do "dmesg | grep acpi"

[omegadot]

Last time I used APM was in Slack 9.1, but I found it easiest to make sure APM was compiled in, then put modprobe apm into my rc.local.

[dark_lord_kodd]

If i modprobe apm and then shutdown -h 0, it shutsdown normally

but after it has unmounted and done all its other stuff, i get a segmentation fault, as if there is a problem with apm?

Anyway, it still dosnt power down, no matter what command i give it.

im thinking maybe the kernel i have wont support apm, or acpi or just dosnt have it compiled, any ideas on how to check or change this?

THanks for the support!

[HamSolo]

Thanks for the helpful post. That was bugging me for a while