Bug#775812: base: HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop fails to halt/poweroff after 15/12/2015 upgrade

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: retitle -1 base: HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop fails to halt/poweroff after 15/12/2014 upgrade
Control: severity -1 important
Control: reassign -1 intel-microcode

Hello,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:42:05 +0100 Miguel <miguel.ortiz-lombardia at igs.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 9.11

I do not really understand what you mean by "Policy 9.11".

Tim, le Thu 12 Feb 2015 23:57:59 +0100, a écrit :
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:42:05 +0100 Miguel <miguel.ortiz-lombardia at igs.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
> > I'm running Debian testing (jessie) on an HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop.
> > Everything goes reasonably well, even very well, except that after
> > running apt-get update/upgrade on Monday (15 December) I cannot halt
> > (poweroff) the computer. When I try to switch it off it just reboots. I
> > manage to get it in sleep mode by pressing the the physical start button
> > and this is what I'm doing since then. No previous problems in this
> > sense before that upgrade. I have 'intel-microcode' and
> > 'firmware-linux-free' installed from the beginning.
> 
> I can confirm this problem on exactly the same notebook and with
> 'intel-microcode' installed as well.

Does it happen without the microcode upload?

> > After that report I was able to sometimes halt the computer correctly either
> > from the gnome interface or from the console.
> 
> I would like to add that I also didn't succeed in halting the notebook
> by using the GRUB command 'halt', it just rebooted after entering this
> command.

Is this after a cold reboot (thus no uploaded microcode) or only after a
hot reboot?

Also, just to make sure: with systemd the "halt" command doesn't power
off, "poweroff" needs to be used instead.

Samuel