i have trouble shutting down rh9... everytime i try to shut it down, this error message appears at the end of the line:

NVRM: APM: device not initialized
apm: suspend was vetoed


what does this mean???

try doing this in a terminal


modprobe apm

then try shutting down..

do i have to do this every time i need to shutdown my machine???

or is there a way to automate this (like putting that command at what config file)???

ok. i tried the "modprobe apm" command, but it says:

modprobe: Can't locate module apm


what am i missing here???

sorry NOOB here

can you please post the output of

ps -A

and

lsmod


how do you shutdown the computer...there are a couple of ways...

poweroff

or shutdown -h now

i tried to shutdown using the gui and then i also tried to shutdown using the terminal with: shutdown -h now

ps -A:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 kapmd
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
9 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 kscand/DMA
7 ? 00:00:00 kscand/Normal
8 ? 00:00:00 kscand/HighMem
10 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
11 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
15 ? 00:00:03 kjournald
73 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2994 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
3309 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
3313 ? 00:00:00 klogd
3331 ? 00:00:00 portmap
3350 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
3418 ? 00:00:00 apmd
3455 ? 00:00:00 sshd
3469 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
3478 ? 00:00:00 gpm
3487 ? 00:00:00 crond
3498 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
3539 ? 00:00:00 squid
3542 ? 00:00:00 squid
3543 ? 00:00:00 unlinkd
3576 ? 00:00:00 xfs
3594 ? 00:00:00 atd
3611 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
3612 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
3613 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
3614 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
3615 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
3616 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
3617 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
3660 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
3661 ? 00:01:23 X
3673 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
3731 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
3742 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
3744 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
3746 ? 00:00:04 metacity
3748 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
3755 ? 00:00:00 fam
3762 ? 00:00:04 gnome-panel
3764 ? 00:00:07 nautilus
3766 ? 00:00:00 magicdev
3769 ? 00:00:00 eggcups
3771 ? 00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
3773 ? 00:00:02 rhn-applet-gui
3774 ? 00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
3782 ? 00:00:00 notification-ar
3809 ? 00:01:53 mozilla-bin
3878 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
3879 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
3880 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
3906 pts/0 00:00:00 ps

lsmod:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
i810_audio 27528 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13544 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6276 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
udf 97504 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 35196 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33472 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
nvidia 3411960 6 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7272 1
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36480 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12948 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis900 16524 1
ipt_REJECT 3896 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2380 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1 3484 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 2 (autoclean)
vfat 12844 2 (autoclean)
fat 38328 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21700 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 19592 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21160 0 (unused)
usbcore 77696 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
ext3 69984 2
jbd 51220 2 [ext3]

just a hunch, but try these two commands...

modprobe acpi

acpid

then try shutting down.....

modprobe acpi
modprobe: Can't locate module acpi


acpid
bash: acpid: command not found


phew!! this is way over my head !! what could have happened here????!!??? O-X

G'day Linus (that ain't your real name is it? I thought there was only the, ONE!)
I have the exact same problem. Until now I thought I was the only one with it in the world.
Running Fedora Core 2. I've searched the Fedora Forums and found nothing.
After reading of the problems people were having with acpi and apm I decided not to install them. Power control is turned off in the BIOS too.
A few weeks ago I did a normal upgrade. The new version of apm was there and knowing that it was a major upgrade from a new keeper, I let apt, via synaptic, install it. Only it didn't. Now no command will shut down or turn the power off. (I can log into root - bash).
At the same time I can't upgrade or install anything with yum or apt. Might be a different problem. They both return: 403 Forbidden. No trouble finding what that means. Grrrrrr...... Whose computer is it?
If you have solved the problem I would be most grateful I you could tell me how.
I don't like having to do a hard off and then wait and watch to press y on startup all the time.

Thanks, Neil.