Hello!

I installed a debian linux a few days ago and am currently running a redhat 9 station. The problem I had was, that when I typed poweroff on the debian, the computer went down but did not turn off power. it just wrote 'Power Down' as his last statement.
Whereas at my redhat-machine it works fine...

has anybody got any idea how to fix it?

Thanks a lot!!!

HAND robert

I have exactly the same problem with debian (kernel 2.6.6, acpi mobo, unstable). Yesterday after I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade the problem occurred first. My XP works just fine.
Here a piece from my syslog. I can't find anything.

Jun 4 03:58:18 castle lpd[722]: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory
Jun 4 03:58:19 castle /usr/sbin/gpm[709]: Detected EXPS/2 protocol mouse.
Jun 4 03:58:19 castle postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jun 4 03:58:19 castle postfix/master[826]: daemon started -- version 2.1.1
Jun 4 03:58:20 castle xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable)
Jun 4 03:58:20 castle xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)
Jun 4 03:58:21 castle rpc.statd[972]: Version 1.0.6 Starting
Jun 4 03:58:21 castle rpc.statd[972]: statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user
Jun 4 03:58:22 castle /usr/sbin/cron[977]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Jun 4 03:58:22 castle /usr/sbin/cron[978]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Jun 4 03:58:22 castle /usr/sbin/cron[978]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Jun 4 03:58:27 castle shutdown[1045]: shutting down for system halt <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<SHUTDOWN<<<<<<<<
Jun 4 03:58:28 castle init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Jun 4 03:58:34 castle authdaemond.plain: authdaemon: modules="authpam", daemons=5
Jun 4 03:58:34 castle postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Jun 4 03:58:34 castle postfix/master[826]: terminating on signal 15
Jun 4 03:58:34 castle xfs[848]: terminating
Jun 4 03:58:35 castle Xprt_64: Xprint server pid=920 done, exitcode=0.
Jun 4 03:58:37 castle rpc.statd[972]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting.
Jun 4 03:58:37 castle kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Jun 4 03:58:37 castle kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Jun 4 03:58:37 castle exiting on signal 15
Jun 4 13:50:18 castle syslogd 1.4.1#14: restart. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<RESTART<<<<<<<<<<
Jun 4 13:50:18 castle kernel: klogd 1.4.1#14, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

Plz help, I'm at a total loss.

Maybe you need to compile acpi support into your kernel?

No I did that. APM is deprecated right? But do I need those sub acpi button and fan things?

A minimal acpi installation should do it. I only suggest it because my notebook used to be unable to turn itself off until I compiled a kernel with acpi support and since I started using that it can.

some hardware doesn't work well with acpi. try compiling apm into your kernel as a module then modprobe apm - if your system halts properly then use it instead of acpi.

But that is the problem! Before my previous apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade everything worked just fine! My pc turned it self off very nicely. Only after the apt... things got broken. So it's not my hardware. XP also still works fine. It has to be something with the updated packages, is there anyway I can find the updated packages in some log?