Bug 9785
Summary: | APMD kills kernel on shutdown. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David D.W. Downey <pgpkeys> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.2 | CC: | ddowney |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-02-25 18:26:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
David D.W. Downey
2000-02-25 18:09:21 UTC
This is a bug in your BIOS, not in apmd (which isn't even running at that point) or the kernel. What happens is the following: - You tell the computer to shutdown. - SysVInit kills all running processes (including APMD) - the kernel shuts down, and tells the APM BIOS to turn off power - your APM BIOS is buggy, can't execute the request and doesn't return an error code either, so it crashes. This is normally related to the APM BIOS not handling 32-bit mode calls (that's why the problem doesn't occur with Windows). Turning APM off in the CMOS setup has nothing to do with this: it only turns off stuff like disk spindown. It is nothing to really worry about though: Since everything has been stopped, the crash is harmless. Consider it a fancy version of saying "It is safe to turn off your computer now". ;) |