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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: shutdown fails with 2.6.9-rc3
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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:29, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I just upgraded to 2.6.9-rc3 from a 2.6.8.1 based kernel, and my laptop
> is no longer powering off. Sometimes, the screen powers off, sometimes
> it sits there saying "Power Down", but in either case, the power LED is
> still lit, and a hard power-off is necessary. This did not happen with
> 2.6.8.1. I tried booting with acpi=off (as there was a report of
> shutdown weirdness due to acpi on 2.6.9-rc1), but that did not help.
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, with a Pentium-M 1500, and Centrino
> chipset. Attached is lscpi, cpuinfo, /proc/modules, and config for the
> 2.6.9-rc3 kernel that fails.
>
> Linux version 2.6.9-rc3 (dang@athena) (gcc version 3.4.2 (Gentoo Linux
> 3.4.2-r2, ssp-3.4.1-1, pie-8.7.6.5)) #1 Wed Oct 6 15:02:35 EDT 2004
>
> Daniel

I have the same machine and experienced the same problem starting with
2.6.9-rc1.

The solution is to disable APIC and IO-APIC support. The reason why it
now has problems is the black-list with the Inspiron on it was removed.


Charles

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