[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#579110: acpid: fails to power off system on suspend to ram/disk

[Andreas Schneider]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid

After upgrading to 2.0.4 the system doesn't power off after suspending to RAM /
disk. I.e. it looks like like it's suspending as normal but at the point when
the screen normally goes blank and the system fans / disks power off, the
system remains powered on. In this state the system is pretty much dead, so I
have to press the reset or the power button before I can reboot the machine.
Downgrading only this package to 2.0.3 fixes the problem for me.

Further observations:
* Suspend to disk never worked for me so far (acpid 2.0.3) (the system would
suspend and power off, it also resumes as expected up to the point where I
would expect to get control back; instead I'm stuck watching at a sleeping
Penguin). If I suspend now (acpid 2.0.4) this behaviour doesn't change with the
difference that I have to manually power off the suspended machine. I.e. after
manually powering off and rebooting the same kernel, the system is indeed
resuming from disk but I'm still stuck with the sleeping penguin. So apparently
it's only the 'switch off' command that's not issued (or accepted) anymore.
* The mainboard is an MSI 785GM-E51. s2ram identifies my machine as:
"
This machine can be identified by:
    sys_vendor   = "MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD"
    sys_product  = "MS-7596"
    sys_version  = "1.0"
    bios_version = "V2.5"
"
* Downgrading the BIOS to V2.4 doesn't fix this.
* I'm using the nvidia proprietary graphics driver (Version 190.53-4).
* I have the vmware player installed (Version 3.0.1 build-227600)
* All the rest is what I'd regard a pretty stock debian sid.

If this isn't enough information, please let me know.

/Andreas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-myamd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-7    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23.1    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools            3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.133-2    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information