[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Manolo Martínez
<manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch
> box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels):
>
> * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up
> with fans on and the On button light on. In this state it is totally
> unresponsive -- it looks much as it does when it fails to suspend.
>
> * But, on battery (and A/C too), it reboots perfectly well. So I've resorted
> to rebooting when I want to shutdown on battery, and then plugging it off
> once it gets to the bios screen.
>
> I'm sure these will be tell-tale symptoms to more enlightened arch users.
> For my part, I am totally clueless. I would have suspected an acpid problem,
> but I have no shutdown event or action enabled. I don't see anything
> interesting in the logs either.
>
> Any piece of advise will be very welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Manolo
>

Have you tried to see if this occurs with any other linux distro? Try
something like Linux Mint or ubuntu. If you can, then see if this
problem occurs in Windows too.