Hi.
I have installed Debian ETCH here. When I run shutdown -h now my computer doesn't turn off automatically. Every time I get in the screen "power off called", but nothing happens.
I had the same problems a few years ago with debian, but I don't remember how I solved it.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

Why would you issue the shutdown command from the commandline? If you have to use the cli, use the halt command. Make sure you issue the command as root!!

Is there any problem doing that? Works the same way. But I have also tried to shutdown using: DESKTOP -> SHUTDOWN, but it didn't work.
Shutdown problems like this have history in linux already. I have seen many posts about this subject in the past.


I'll try halt then. thanks

halt doesn't shutdown the computer completely either.
I have just tested it.

First, make sure that you actually have Power Management enabled on your bios. Then, try to load the apm module:

modprobe apm
shutdown -h now

I hope this works.

Regards!

This isn't perchance an HP laptop is it?

When my Mandriva didn't install kdm, I had to use command: #/sbin/shutdown -h now , for shutdown, and #/sbin/shutdown -r now , to re-start, doing it any other way would result in an improper shutdown and a file system check followed by a re-boot upon next boot.
You may not have acpi enabled.

How can I know if I have acpi enabled or not?

Just woke up.

Good question
I mentioned this because my Mandrake would not enable acpi on a fresh install and it would go through it's kill processes, but would not shut the hardware end down. So through the Mandrake Control Center in the "boot" section was a radio button for "enable acpi" was not set, by setting it to enable acpi would get it to shutdown the hardware power supply also.
I did a base minimal installation of Etch, and may not have access to such a feature because I possibly did not install correct software to give access to this sort of configuration. So far, because I installed KDE and not Gnome, I go to main menu/system/ksysguard performance monitor, and acpi is listed as one of the processes running, there's also a "kill" switch which would allow me to kill it in the "process table" section. Maybe it's through here in Etch that you take care of acpi, I doubt it though. Also, it shows up as one of the items installed in Synaptic.

Sorry, sorry sorry... I don't know why, but I didn't see your post so far. I have answered posts below yours, but I didn't see yours..

I did what you've said, and I got:
Sorry, sorry sorry. I didn't see your post too.
No. I'm not using a notebook. P4 EM64T, asus p5gd2-x and geforce 6800GS, with Debian ETCH x386 installed (I didn't install debian amd64).



It's not listed as my process, but when I set the option to show me ALL PROCESSES, I can see acpid (sleeping). So, this means it's loaded, and it also means that my problem with shutdown isn't because acpid isn't loaded. It's loaded. The problem must be because of something else.

I have just found a post here about the same problem. They say they solved this problem by adding "apm power_off=1" in /etc/modules. That doesn't work for me, because Debian doesn't have this file /etc/modules.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=shutdown

Some computers cannot use acpi, not sure what determines this. Also, in Synaptic is a package called "apmd", the advanced power management daemon. Maybe you need to install it. I would, just for the sake of trying, kill acpid in system services and shutdown the computer to see if it makes a difference. Then maybe install apm and see what happens with and without killing and/or removing acpid.

Hi.
I have checked my Bios, and there I have acpi 2.0 enabled.
I have installed apmd as you requested. I have just noticed that apm was installed here too. So, now I have apm and apmd installed.

When I typed shutdown - h now, I got again, the same message something like: acpi power off called, in the end of all those lines.

I have also typed apm and apmd in my promp and I got:

Looking thru the output of ...

$ dmesg | grep ACPI

...may give some clue of what's happening.

That worked for me:
Remove the acpid package:
And install the apmd package:
Restart the computer!

And now you can halt it!