Bug 3532

Summary: ACPI poweroff stopped working (Dell Inspiron 8600)
Product: ACPI Reporter: Toralf Förster (toralf.foerster)
Component: Power-OffAssignee: acpi_power-off
Status: REJECTED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.9-rc3 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:

Description Toralf Förster 2004-10-09 01:54:37 UTC
Distribution: gentoo
Hardware Environment: Dell Inspiron 8600
Software Environment: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r7
Problem Description:
After upgrading from gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3 to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r7
my system does not halt successfully. Instead I got on the console:

...
Shutdown:hda
Power down.
acpi_power_off called

After reverting "2705_fix-intel-acpi.patch" from the gentoo genpatches tarball
it works now. All Details and steps to prevent this bug are in bug report
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66613

Steps to reproduce:
Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2004-10-09 05:28:19 UTC
Oops,
I forgot to say that the same happens with official kernel 2.6.9-rc3 !
Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2004-10-09 09:44:36 UTC
nolapic with 2.6.9-rc3 solves the problem
Comment 3 Len Brown 2004-10-10 00:24:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3238 ***