It hangs again :(

[Mike Reinehr]

On Monday 13 November 2006 23:58, Vu Pham wrote:
> Last week I posted the problem with my home Suse which it hung when it is
> supposed to power off - all process are killed then saying power is going
> down and just hangs there.
>
> After I ran a system update, the problem was fixed but it appears again
> since last night. Because it has been just two days ago so this time I am
> sure I did not changed anything in the kernel or the bios setup.
>
> Checed messages and no error shown at that part. :(
>
> Now I have to shut it down then manually press the power bnutton for 5
> seconds.
>
>
> Vu

Vu,

-	Have you made any changes to the BIOS (upgrade or configuration)?
-	Have you upgraded your kernel (new binary package or recompile)?
-	How old is your system?

The problem has to be with one of the above, BIOS, kernel, or hardware. I was 
reading somewhere recently what a sorry piece of work is ACPI, so my money 
would be on some subtle conflict between the BIOS & the kernel. You might 
review your BIOS setup & kernel configuration for possible a 
misconfiguration.

Good luck! I had a system a few years ago, that I finally just resigned myself 
to powering off manually. I never could get it to work properly. But since i 
rarely shut off my systems it wasn't really a problem.

Cheers!

cmr
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