[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#354163: apmd: Computer does not switch off any more

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

To test this problem, I did a fresh debian/sid installation on my old
IBM Thinkpad X30 laptop, and tried 'shutdown -h now'.  It powered down
as it should.  It was using kernel version 2.6.17-1-686 and
initscripts version 2.86.ds1-15.  I used lsmod to verify that no acpi
nor apm kernel modules were loaded, so I doubt either is involved.n

So I was wrong when I believed the kernel failed to power down on all
machines currently.  It seem to work on at least one machine. :)

When your machine do 'shutdown -h now', what is the last message
appearing on the screen?  When I do it in qemu, I get these lines:

  Will now halt
  Shutdown: hda
  System halted.

The first line is from init.d/halt, the second is from /sbin/halt, and
the the last line is printed by the kernel in the reboot() call.  Do
you see these lines when your machine fail to power down?