Having problems with 2.4.9-ac
I have reported having problems shuting down and rebooting my SMP machine before. Before the 2.4.8/9 series or ac kernels the last kernel which could correctly reboot or shut down my machine had been 2.4.6-ac2. I was very surprised when 2.4.8-ac10 was actually able to do so as well. If I issued any of the various commands to shut the box down it would correctly get to the "Shutting down the machine" or similar message and then issue Power Down and the box would go down, also it would correctly get to the "Please wait while the machine reboots..." and then would reboot. Since 2.4.8-ac10 I have tried 2.4.8-ac12 as well as 2.4.9-ac1 and 2.4.9-ac3 none of which can correctly reboot or shut down anymore. What might the problem be? I don't want to go back to 2.4.8-ac10 if at all possible, 2.4.9-ac3 is one of if not the most stable 2.4 kernel I have run in a long time. Thank you for whatever help you can give, let me know if I can provide more data.
Jordan Breeding
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2.4.6-ac2. I was very surprised when 2.4.8-ac10 was actually able to do so as well. If I issued any of the various commands to shut the box
Unfortunately "so am I" since I don't understand what would be relevant as a change affecting this
"A month of sundays ago Jordan Breeding wrote:"
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I have reported having problems shuting down and rebooting my SMP machine before. Before the 2.4.8/9 series or ac kernels the last kernel
ditto.
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correctly reboot or shut down anymore. What might the problem be? I don't want to go back to 2.4.8-ac10 if at all possible, 2.4.9-ac3 is one of if not the most stable 2.4 kernel I have run in a long time. Thank
Does anyone have the patch diff from 8-ac10 to 8-ac11 in the apm area? This sounds very hopeful for tracking down the problem .. if it's not just timing.
Peter
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"A month of sundays ago Jordan Breeding wrote:"
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I have reported having problems shuting down and rebooting my SMP machine before. Before the 2.4.8/9 series or ac kernels the last kernel
ditto.
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correctly reboot or shut down anymore. What might the problem be? I don't want to go back to 2.4.8-ac10 if at all possible, 2.4.9-ac3 is one of if not the most stable 2.4 kernel I have run in a long time. Thank
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Does anyone have the patch diff from 8-ac10 to 8-ac11 in the apm area? This sounds very hopeful for tracking down the problem .. if it's not just timing.
Peter
I don't think that it has anything to do with APM specifically. On the kernel which it doesn't work on I can use nothing, ACPI, or APM (with smp power-off set to on). On the kernel revisions for which it works I normally just use ACPI. I don't like to use APM since it isn't smp clean completely and I only use ACPI for power-off and reboot options so I normally just stick with that. I guess it could be APM which is broken but then why would ACPI not work for simple rebooting and shutting down all the time?
Jordan
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Does anyone have the patch diff from 8-ac10 to 8-ac11 in the apm area? This sounds very hopeful for tracking down the problem .. if it's not just timing.
Basically there are no changes in that are - there is a pnpbios change but it should be unrelated