ok I reread the message and I concede being wrong if it stops AT the message .. yep its wrong. Mine stops after that as a result of acpi, so it was me mis-reading it . my laptop says something like Sending all processes the TERM signal shutdown now and just sits there, but yes, i should have read it properly before hitting reply... sorry Greig McGill wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:32 +1300, Gavin Denby wrote:
You should be ok.
Sounds like the acpi shutdown issue. The kernel does not have the required ACPI support to actually turn of the machine, although its trying to.
ACPI support is getting better, but not quite there yet.
Nope. The ACPI or APM problem would not manifest at that point. The system has not asked the hardware to shutdown yet. Some process is blocking... Now, how to find out which? :)
G.
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