It hangs again :(

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:34 -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote:
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> -	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 last time I made a kernel updated was two days ago when I posted
this problem and got Lonni reminding me about changed
hardware/bios/kernel. After running the update, I could shut it down
fine then last night or yesterday morning I found this problem happen
again. Because I just made an update two days ago, so I can be sure that
I did not change anything under Bios or kernel.

This is my "emergency" development system, 2-month old, which I use
mostly for my app coding so I has been trying not to change anything at
the system level, unless I have to, in order to keep my environment
intact. The shutdown had been working great until last week. 

> 
> 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.

I think for newer systems and kernels, this problem is fading away. It
works fine for me with RH9, RHEL 3 & 4, Suse 10. Ah, for FC6 also. Just
tried it yesterday on the IRC server :)

Thanks, Mike.

Vu