HELP! -> Computer won't shut down!

chocobanana · 03-24-2005, 08:36 AM

Hi

My computer is now properly shuting down.

However, it began doing so in a bizarre way. I didn't understand very well your last post, and since I was already fed up with this, I decided to just paste your code in my rc.M which didn't have anything like it. I pasted it before the network inicialization stuff.

Then I rebooted my pc and during the boot up it reported an error about unrecognizing two lines of the code I pasted from you. After the boot, it also didn't have internet working, so I edited rc.M and removed your code. Then I shuted down the machine from kde just to see if it was working and voilá!, it sure was, but I thought that if I removed your code, it wouldn't shutdown again. But in hope it would, I rebooted and then shutdown again and it was still working and with internet back to work!

So, my question now is, why is it still working even without your code in rc.M?

Thanks!!

Bruce Hill · 03-24-2005, 08:41 AM

We could look at a lot of stuff, but as my grandfather used to say,
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth...

Bebo · 03-24-2005, 08:46 AM

I think what happened is that the apm module was (at last

) properly loaded, and thus able to power off your system. The module is of course not unloaded just because you remove those lines in rc.M.

But, I'm probably (at least somewhat) wrong, since you say you just copied the script snippet into rc.M, and you don't say anything about uncommenting the apm lines. So, it might be that you have a /etc/rc.d/rc.acpid script, which did something good (as well as something bad, since there were some error messages).

A question: what's the output if you do modprobe apm ? If there is no output, is apm listed when you do lsmod ? If so, then there is no problem really, except for making the apm module load during boot.

kevinatkins · 03-24-2005, 08:50 AM

hello,

try modifying your lilo.conf file -

Quote:

# Partition 2: Vector_Linux
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda7
label = vector_linux
append = ""
read-only

change the line' append=""' to 'append="acpi=force"'; this worked for me.

chocobanana · 03-24-2005, 09:15 AM

Hi

I tryed lsmod but it doesn't show anything about apm.

As for the modprobe apm output:

Code:

/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o.gz: insmod apm failed

Don't really understand it...

I also tryed "dmesg | grep ACPI":

Code:

apm: overridden by ACPI.
apm: overridden by ACPI.

Looks like acpi was somehow activated instead of APM. If one looks carefully at Chinaman's code, the apm code in commented but the acpi isn't. But I still don't get it, since I had that error at the first boot up.

BTW, I suspect that apm or acpi are only loaded before shutdown, so is there a script for the shutdown process? It's because right before the computer shutdown, I get the same output of "modprobe apm"...

Thanks