[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#605219: acpi-support-base: power button stopped working

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-11-28 12:40 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:11:39AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> > Since the upgrade to version 0.138-1, my system no longer shuts down
>> > when I press the power button.  Note that I'm not using a desktop
>> > environment.
>> 
>> Additionally, I switched to the console before pressing the power
>> button.  This caused the following message to appear in the syslog:
>> 
>> ,----
>> | Nov 27 23:28:32 turtle powerbtn-acpi-support.sh: power-funcs: mismatch, */X or */Xorg expected
>> `----
>> 
>> Shutting down still works under X, though.  I'm not sure that it is a
>> very good idea that pwf_error() exits when anything unexpected happens,
>> canceling the shutdown.
>
> Let me recap, if you are under X your X power manager comes up and enables you
> to shutdown the system right?

I don't have an X power manager, the system shuts down right away.

> If not you get that error message in syslog and no reaction. Could you please
> check which value $1 has in that case statement in
> /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs? Or as root run 
> ps wt tty`fgconsole` --no-headers
> and tell us the output. 

,----
| # ps wt tty $(fgconsole) --no-headers
|  1726 tty1     Ss     0:00 /bin/login --     
|  1919 tty1     S      0:00 -bash
|  1952 tty1     R+     0:00 ps wt tty1 --no-headers
`----

> I'd like to figure out why getXconsole() doesn't work for you, it certainly
> does for me. 
>
> One last point concerning pwf_error, if it did not exit, the system would
> shutdown even if the GUI power manager was running. I'm not sure if this is
> better.

May be debatable, yes.  All that I want is that the system shuts down cleanly
when I press the power button, that comes in handy when GPU or keyboard
is locked up and no sshd running to come to the rescue.

Cheers,
       Sven