The computer halt(power off) instead of reboot

[Mark Lam]

when reboot the computer,It halt(power off) instead of reboot.
It works fine only when disable the acpi by appending acpi=off to kernel.

My ubuntu box is 5.10 Colony 5

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Please attach /var/log/dmesg and the output from "sudo dmidecode"

[Mark Lam (mark-jlam)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please attach /var/log/dmesg and the output from "sudo dmidecode"

[4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-9-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5
20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Tue Oct 4 18:44:03 BST 2005
[4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[4294667.296000] 255MB LOWMEM available.
[4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 65520
[4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
[4294667.296000] Normal zone: 61424 pages, LIFO batch:31
[4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
[4294667.296000] DMI 2.2 present.
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x00
0f76c0
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @
0x0fff3000
[4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @
0x0fff3040
[4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @
0x00000000
[4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 10000000:ef
ff0000)
[4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists
[4294667.296000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda8 ro quiet splash
[4294667.296000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01201000)
[4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0
[4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
[4294667.296000] Detected 1102.750 MHz processor.
[4294667.296000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[4294667.296000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[4294671.069000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[4294671.070000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[4294671.084000] Memory: 251524k/262080k available (1415k kernel code, 9952k res
erved, 763k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
[4294671.084000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in superviso
r mode... Ok.
[4294671.084000] Calibrating delay loop... 2179.07 BogoMIPS (lpj=1089536)
[4294671.108000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[4294671.108000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[4294671.108000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[4294671.108000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 0
0000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[4294671.108000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00
000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[4294671.108000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/lin e)
[4294671.108000] CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
[4294671.108000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000020
 0...

[Mark Lam (mark-jlam)]

# dmidecode 2.6
SMBIOS 2.2 present.
44 structures occupying 1138 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0800.
Handle 0x0000
        DMI type 0, 19 bytes.
        BIOS Information
                Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
                Version: 6.00 PG
                Release Date: 10/23/2001
                Address: 0xE0000
                Runtime Size: 128 kB
                ROM Size: 256 kB
                Characteristics:
                        ISA is supported
                        PCI is supported
                        PNP is supported
                        APM is supported
                        BIOS is upgradeable
                        BIOS shadowing is allowed
                        ESCD support is available
                        Boot from CD is supported
                        Selectable boot is supported
                        BIOS ROM is socketed
                        EDD is supported
                        5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                        5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                        3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                        3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                        Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                        8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                        Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                        Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                        CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                        ACPI is supported
                        USB legacy is supported
                        AGP is supported
                        LS-120 boot is supported
                        ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
Handle 0x0001
        DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
        System Information
                Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                Product Name: VT8363
                Version:
                Serial Number:
                UUID: Not Present
                Wake-up Type: Power Switch
Handle 0x0002
        DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
        Base Board Information
                Manufacturer:
                Product Name: 8363-686B
                Version:
                Serial Number:
Handle 0x0003
        DMI type 3, 13 bytes.
        Chassis Information
                Manufacturer:
                Type: Desktop
                Lock: Not Present
                Version:
                Serial Number:
                Asset Tag:
                Boot-up State: Unknown
                Power Supply State: Unknown
                Thermal State: Unknown
                Security Status: Unknown
Handle 0x0004
        DMI type 4, 32 bytes.
        Processor Information
                Socket Designation: Socket A
                Type: Central Processor
                Family: K5
                Manufacturer: AMD
                ID: 70 06 00 00 FF F9 83 03
                Signature: Family 6, Model 7, Stepping 0
                Flags:
                        FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
                        VME (Virtual mode extension)
                        DE (...

[Mirza (mirza-seznam)]

this is duplicate of Bug 22544

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22544.