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Supporter1984 11-27-2008 07:18 AM
Howto shutdown Slackware correctly
 
Hi guys, ive been searching around and i havent been able to get a valid final answer on how to properly shutdown my slackware machine.

shutdown -h now | /sbin/poweroff | halt | What?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

hitest 11-27-2008 07:31 AM
A little more information would be helpful. So shutdown -h now doesn't work? What happens when you issue that command? I have an aging Plll running Slackware 12.1 and to get it to fully shutdown I need to modify lilo.conf and add acpi=force.

Code:
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append=" vt.default_utf8=0 acpi=force"
boot = /dev/hda

ChrisAbela 11-27-2008 07:32 AM
It depends if you are logged in a Command line terminal or in Windows Manager. In UNIX, the best way to shutdown is
Quote:
shutdown -h now
because shutdown has many more options than halt.

bgeddy 11-27-2008 07:45 AM
Code:
su -c poweroff
is what I always use.
Quote:
I need to modify lilo.conf and add acpi=force.
Some of my older machines need this and some ancient ones won't powerdown properly at all !

Supporter1984 11-27-2008 07:48 AM
When i use shutdown -h now it comes to an finishing line that says System halted.

Is that allright? Can i power off my machine then?

hitest, what do you mean with "fully shutdown"? You mean it have to go power off by its own?

*sorry for my bad english

hitest 11-27-2008 07:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Supporter1984 (Post 3356660)
When i use shutdown -h now it comes to an finishing line that says System halted.

Is that allright? Can i power off my machine then?

hitest, what do you mean with "fully shutdown"? You mean it have to go power off by its own?

*sorry for my bad english
Yes. You can power down then when it says system halted. If you want it to shut off completely when you issue shutdown -h now you can try to add acpi=force to /etc/lilo.conf with a text editor (see my code above). For example:

# nano etc/lilo.conf

When you make your changes make sure to run lilo to update lilo.conf.

Supporter1984 11-27-2008 08:25 AM
Well i did this:

* Added the line append=" vt.default_utf8=0 acpi=force"to my lilo.conf
* Runned my lilo before shuting down, doing /sbin/lilo
* Shutdown -h now
* It stayed like before, on System halted.

Should i add the whole line ou only acpi=force ?

Thanks for the help so far guys.

H_TeXMeX_H 11-27-2008 08:27 AM
Can you provide a bit more info on your computer, how old is it ? is it a laptop or desktop ? what brand if any ?

Supporter1984 11-27-2008 08:31 AM
Its a Desktop Pentium II
Dell Optiplex GX1
512 RAM

Dual boot with windows

dive 11-27-2008 09:38 AM
Dont know how old that is but maybe its using apm rather than acpi? Is there an apm kernel append line?

hitest 11-27-2008 09:47 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Supporter1984 (Post 3356694)
Well i did this:

* Added the line append=" vt.default_utf8=0 acpi=force"to my lilo.conf
* Runned my lilo before shuting down, doing /sbin/lilo
* Shutdown -h now
* It stayed like before, on System halted.

Should i add the whole line ou only acpi=force ?

Thanks for the help so far guys.
Your line should look like mine; just add acpi=force to the end.

Edit: added later. Try a re-boot to see if that allows the changes to lilo to take effect.

bgeddy 11-27-2008 10:04 AM
Quote:
Dont know how old that is but maybe its using apm rather than acpi? Is there an apm kernel append line?
From the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c kernel source file :
Code:
/*
 * See Documentation/Config.help for the configuration options.
 *
 * Various options can be changed at boot time as follows:
 * (We allow underscores for compatibility with the modules code)
 *        apm=on/off                        enable/disable APM
 *            [no-]allow[-_]ints                allow interrupts during BIOS calls
 *            [no-]broken[-_]psr                BIOS has a broken GetPowerStatus call
 *            [no-]realmode[-_]power[-_]off        switch to real mode before
 *                                                    powering off
 *            [no-]debug                        log some debugging messages
 *            [no-]power[-_]off                power off on shutdown
 *            [no-]smp                        Use apm even on an SMP box
 *            bounce[-_]interval=<n>        number of ticks to ignore suspend
 *                                            bounces
 *          idle[-_]threshold=<n>      System idle percentage above which to
 *                                      make APM BIOS idle calls. Set it to
 *                                      100 to disable.
 *          idle[-_]period=<n>          Period (in 1/100s of a second) over
 *                                      which the idle percentage is
 *                                      calculated.
 */
I've tried mucking about with these but some older boxes (as in PII's) refuse to powerdown for me.

H_TeXMeX_H 11-27-2008 10:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Supporter1984 (Post 3356700)
Its a Desktop Pentium II
Dell Optiplex GX1
512 RAM

Dual boot with windows
For such an old computer I would disable ACPI and use APM instead. So use this kernel option:

Code:
acpi=off

lumak 11-27-2008 10:51 AM
I thought Slackware was set up so that pressing (not holding) the power button will shut everything down. Additionally can't you always 'sudo init 0' ??

dive 11-27-2008 11:16 AM
You the acpi config file has the power button to init 0 but it has never worked for me, although I'm glad cos a few times I've to hard reset by holding power button.


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