shutdown wont power off

Hi

When i issue the command shutdown -h, or poweroff, the system prepears for shutdown, logs everyone out....and so on...all fine....then it finishes and the last line is

power down


but it dosnt, the pc is just left running there.

So how can i make slackware finnish the job and actually power down the computer? i am in a shared house and want to be able to tell the pc to turn off in 3 hours after a download or something.....cant waste electrisity!

Ive looked in bios but found nothing that jumps out...and i seem to remember that when the pc had windows ME it would power down itself, so im sure its supported.


CPU: AMD K6-2 500mhz
M/B: Giga-byte GA-5AX rev 2.5
RAM: 192mb PC100

Slackware 10


Many thanks

Try adding the option ACPI=force to either grub or lilo.

Jeremy

I had to use the kernel.apci to fix mine. I just recompiled my kernel and somehow left that out so I am going to have to recompile again.
Mike

Hi!

I assume you have the bare.i kernel from the slack-cd ...

if you say

Code:

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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

Code:

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#### 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

save the changes and that was it!

Ok, ive tried adding that line to the end of my lilo.conf and it dosnt seem to of worked.

Also, when i modrpobe apm, it produces a segmentation fault after poweroff. But still it just sits there after!


shutdow -h is the right command isnt it?

It sounds like the drives are loosing power, but the rest is still going!

thanks for the help.

After you edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, you need to also run the command

Code:

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lilo -v

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Jeremy

just to add makesure you run

Code:

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/sbin/lilo

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to check for errors.
make sure there are no errors before rebooting.

I'm not sure but i think you can use this command

shutdown -h -t now

goodluck!!

Or just type "halt" ;

what does your "dmesg" say once you login.

better yet, "dmesg | grep acpi"