From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Shutdown from gnome gui or terminal. 2. 3. Actual Results: power down. general protection fault: f000 ide-cd cdrom sb sb_lib uart401 sound soundcore mousedev input autofs iptable_f CPU: 0 EIP: 0050:[<000000bc>] Not Tainted EFLAGS: 00010046 EIP is at Using Versions [] 0xbb (2.4.18-17.8.0) after this there are other numbers followed by Code: Bad EIP value. Expected Results: computer turned off completely Additional info:
EIP: 0050:[<000000bc>] that's actually a bios that is oopsing can you send me the output of the dmidecode program so I can mark this bios as broken for this feature? (dmidecode is in the kernel-utils rpm package)
How do I run the dmidecode.c program? I have made a couple of attempts, and I don't believe I am getting any information that you would want. I would appreciate you help with this, so I can get the quirk ironed out. THANKS!!
ehm why do you have a .c one ? (the kernel-utils rpm should provide a binary for it too, and you need to run it as root, eg dmidecode > file and then attach "file" to this bug)
I'm getting a bash: dmidecode: command not found could the RPM not have installed correctly?
Created attachment 83744 [details] dmidecode results
Is there a work around/solution for the oopsing or is it something that will happen forever. The BIOS is currently the most up to date that Hewlett Packard has to offer. I appreciate your help!
you can add "apm=off" to the vmlinuz line in /boot/grub/grub.conf
THANKS!! That has eliminated the EIP error. The screen now just stops at Power Down. Does that mean my only option at this point is just to push the power button? Thanks for your help!
unfortionatly yes. The "oops" you saw was when the kernel was trying to use the APM method to power down the machine. This didn't work (eg it oopsed) so disabling APM means the kernel WON'T try to power it down, which in turn means you have to do it yourself ;(
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