[arch-general] I can't really poweroff my pc

[Thanos Zygouris]

On Sun 19 Feb 17:21, 朱格宏 wrote:
> 于 2012年02月19日 17:00, Christoph Vigano 写道:
> > Am 2/19/2012 9:50 AM, schrieb 朱格宏:
> >> 于 2012年02月19日 16:49, Christoph Vigano 写道:
> >>> Am 2/19/2012 9:09 AM, schrieb 朱格宏:
> >>>> Recently, i found my Dell D630 can't poweroff . when i shutdown my
> >>>> laptop, it will shutdown all device except power,i must use power button
> >>>> forced to close it.
> >>>> but i don't know what the matter is.
> >>>>
> >>> How do you shutdown your Computer? If you use shutdown, your Computer
> >>> will be in "maintenance mode" IIRC. You must use the command "halt".
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>> Christoph
> >>>
> >> i use command "poweroff" or poweroff in gnome-shell menu
> > Okay, "poweroff" is a symlink to "halt" for me. What about trying "halt"
> > directly for shutting down the laptop? Is this a new behaviour for your
> > laptop? Did you maybe install ACPI-related updates?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Christoph
> halt is okay,"poweroff" and "shutdown" in gnome-shell menu can't
> shutdown my pc,i haven't install acpi packages

I had the same problems with my 4300 Latitude, after a kernel update
(not sure what version). I installed a newer BIOS version (A23) and the
problem stopped. Hope this helps.