Mandrake shutdown/segmentation fault

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Thanks, Lonni.  The first link is of course exactly my problem.

After a little research I find the motherboard actually is usable in both 
AT and ATX systems--and I couldn't find a way in the BIOS to turn off APM 
support.  While the manual says Power Management can be set to "Disabled", 
that choice is not actually available.  Besides, other APM features, like 
powering down disks should still work, so there are advantages to having an 
APM-enabled kernel, and having it available in hardware.

What I did--that seems to have worked--is compare the shutdown script on 
this system with one on a Slackware system. There I found a little better 
documentation on what happens in the last moments of shutdown.  In the 
Mandrake file (/etc/init.d/halt), I found the line "HALTARGS="-i -d -p"", 
and when I changed it to "HALTARGS="-i -d"" on my system at home, it no 
longer powered off.  I did the same on the system I asked about--no more 
segfault.

At 10:54 AM 4/4/02 -0800, Net Llama wrote:
>Check these out:
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Stuart Biggerstaff

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