Re: 2.6.25-rc5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Jeff Garzik]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 of March 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10123
> > > > > Subject		: No power-off / reboot with 2.6.25-rcX (up to -rc3)
> > > > FWIW, I have this same problem.
> > > Jeff, does that one ("keep rd->online and cpu_online_map in sync") fix the 
> > > problem for you?
> > Nope.  I am running baadac8b10c5ac15ce3d26b68fa266c8889b163f now, and it 
> > still hangs on reboot or power-off.
> >
> > Interestingly, if I reboot -immediately- from gdm, it succeeds.  However 
> > if I login to Fedora GNOME via gdm, and load my standard apps (1001 
> > terminals, firefox, tbird, IRC) reboot and poweroff no longer work.
> >
> > My guess was always some ACPI regression.  I'll bisect today or 
> > tomorrow.  It is reproducible regression that appeared recently (circa 
> > 2.6.24 or 2.6.25-rc1 I think), so I should be able to find the culprit.


Well, after going through several kernel versions (back to 2.6.19 so 
far), this machine continues to have reboot problems.  I'm going to 
back-burner this, as it is looking more like a hardware or BIOS problem 
that cropped up recently.

	Jeff




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