Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180006
kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 breaks power off
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:25:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.0.7-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When turning off the computer by selecting "Shutdown Computer" in Gnome or pressing the power button on your computer case, the shutdown process start, the screen goes dark but power still remain on the motherboard. After a little while the motherboard start to beep agressivly, you have to pull the power cord out (or presse the 1/0 switch on the power supply if you have one). This problem was reported before with the 2.6.13 series, was fixed in the 2.6.14 and now appears again with the 2.6.15-1.1830 (the first 2.6.15 kernel of FC4). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.power off your system 2. 3. Actual Results: power remains at the end of shutdown process and motherboard start to beep Expected Results: the computer powers off on itself Additional info: Bi-opteron 242 on Tyan Tiger K8W motherboard. This problem has appeared and has been fixed once.
Ooops, my bad, I found the previous report about this breakage in bug #160775 . It was the kernel 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 that created a failure in the power off process. Corrected in 2.6.13, it happens again in 2.6.15.
tests done with 2.6.15-1.1830, 2.6.15-1.1831, 2.6.15-1.1833, the problem still remains
I tryed the apm=realmode-power-off option in grub too, as said in bug #160775 but nothing happens.
Also tryed : pressing the power on/off button, shutdown -h now, poweroff everything fails
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
(this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug.