Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.ausmus@gmail.com) wrote
 > 2009/6/2 John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
 > 
 > > on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(samson@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote
 > >  > * John covici (covici@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]:
 > >  > > Hi.  I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I
 > >  > > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into
 > >  > > a state where it says
 > >  > > init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart
 > >  > > or shutdown if I use -h.  How in the heck do I even debug such a thing
 > >  > > or fix?
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Thanks in advance for any good ideas.
 > >  > >
 > >  >
 > >  > Did you enable ACPI in your kernel configuration?
 > > Yep.
 > >
 > 
 > Make sure
 > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON
 > is enabled in your kernel config (for menuconfig, under Power Management &
 > ACPI -> ACPI Support -> Button) - without this, Linux can't auto-shut-off
 > your system.
Its a module, not built-in.  But even shutdown -r now does not work as
 I get the message mentioned above and the computer hangs there
 forever.

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