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

[Miguel Ortiz Lombardía]

Hello!

El 30/03/15 a las 18:54, Samuel Thibault escribió:
> 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".
> 

Well, when depositing a bug report concerning a "base" package you're
asked in what way you think the Debian Policy Manual has been broken, to
justify the report. Since it had been suggested that the problem could
come from systemd, I thought that this text from paragraph 11, chapter 9
of the Debian Policy Manual could be such justification :
"<...> However, any package integrating with other init systems must
also be backwards-compatible with sysvinit by providing a SysV-style
init script with the same name as and equivalent functionality to any
init-specific job, as this is the only start-up configuration method
guaranteed to be supported by all init implementations. An exception to
this rule is scripts or jobs provided by the init implementation itself
<...> "
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-alternateinit)

Having said that, I was not expecting an answer so long after (thank you
anyway!) I must say that eventually after much reading I solved my
problem by tweaking the BIOS and making sure that "Wake on WLAN" was
inactive... I still don't understand why this manipulation had not been
necessary previously, but anyway, that's not important to me : I don't
need/want to wake up my computer when a known wifi becomes available...

I decided not to close the bug report myself because I thought I might
have found a particular solution, good for me, perhaps not for others.

All the best,

   Miguel


> 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
>