``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 8:43 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:14 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  Hmm.  The more I think about this, the more I think I tripped
>>  across something similar once.  I think it was something like
>>  I turned on 'APM' somewhere, or I added it to my kernel, or
>  > something.  For power-down, you need to be using ACPI, not APM.
>>  But from your dmesg output, it looks like you are using ACPI,
>  > so I am probably not helping much with that guess either.
>
>Ok, I built APM into the kernel and gave it a few tries, fiddling
>with different things.

Sorry, my comments were not as clear as they should have been.
What I meant is that my problem was *caused* by adding APM into
the mix, when it should not have been there.  That's what I
meant by:   For power-down, you need to be using ACPI, not APM.

But all of this is just vague memory anyway.  I haven't had any
problems with my machines powering down for quite awhile now.
(through many different system builds...)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu