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:
Oops, I forgot to say that the same happens with official kernel 2.6.9-rc3 !
nolapic with 2.6.9-rc3 solves the problem
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3238 ***