Ubuntu
sysvinit package

  1. Bug #483007
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 483007

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Philip Martin (philip-codematters) wrote : Re: [Bug 483007] Re: shutdown does not switch off power

Philip Martin <email address hidden> writes:

> Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> writes:
>
>> shutdown is still handled by sysvinit, it sounds like a service isn't
>> going down
>>
>> how long have you waited at that point?
>
> As much as ten minutes. Even if I boot in recovery mode and drop to a
> root shell it still doesn't poweroff when I run shutdown. I've even
> tried stopping all the services manually before running shutdown.

More info: alt-sysrq-l shows the cpu in acpi_idle_enter_bm. If I boot
with acpi=off it's atomic_notifier_call_chain from cpu_idle.

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Philip