> I have the same problem. The machine (an ATX PPro, VS440FX)
> does not power off, although it did it before. It just prints
> "System halted." I have tried /sbin/halt -p and
> /sbin/poweroff.
>
> This started happening when I compiled a new init (2.72) with
> glibc (2.0.6), so the cause could be either init or glibc. (I
> suspect glibc.) The kernel is compiled with "APM Power
> Management BIOS Support" and "Power off on shutdown".
>
> Has anybody else seen this problem?
Yes, I used to have problems too, but saw a "fix" for it on linux-kernel
some time ago. In the file kernel/sys.c there is the function
sys_reboot(), which needs to be "prepared" thusly:
--- /usr/src/linux/kernel/sys.c Sun Mar 15 14:10:17 1998
+++ /usr/src/linux-2.1.88/kernel/sys.c Mon Feb 23 01:31:07 1998
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@
case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT:
notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_HALT,
NULL);
printk(KERN_EMERG "System halted.\n");
+ machine_power_off();
machine_halt();
do_exit(0);
break;
(use --ignore-whitespace as i'm using cut'n'paste... if you _really_ want
this patch, i won't recommend on using it)
As you can see this is crude and certainly the wrong way of doing this
since it eliminates the possibility to halt the machine. I can live with
that, though :) I'm using AL440LX, glibc and sysvinit 2.73.
I took a fast look on halt.c (in sysvinit 2.74 package) but couldn't see
why it would fail... It even has a include file of it's own which has
#define BMAGIC_POWEROFF 0x4321FEDC
which matches the definition in include/linux/reboot.h. Where's the
problem?
>
> --
> Johan Myreen
> jem@iki.fi
>
Taneli <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi>
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