<br><br><b><i>Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@vitalstream.com><br><br><br> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:<br>> Both myself, and Aaron Konstram are having problems with the complete shutdown <br>> of our machines. I am running FC5, and since some updates to FC5, kernels <br>> later than the original kernel installed from the CDROM refuse to shutdown <br>> cmpletely. The shutdown messages reach "power off" then nothing, and you have <br>> to press, and hold the start button on the PC to switch the machine off. When <br>> shutdown reaches the power off stage, I hear the harddrives spin down, but <br>> the machine is still active.<br>> <br>> these ar the kernels on my FC5:<br>> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (this one shutsdown ok)<br>> but all of these refuse
to shutdown completely:<br>> 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5<br>> 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5<br>> 2.6.18-1.2200_FC5<br>> 2.6.18-1.2239_FC5<br>> and<br>> 2.6.18-1.2257_FC5<br>> <br>> I have been googling, and found suggestions to use "lapic" . I'm not sure how <br>> to use it. I tried at the grub prompt for the kernel, using "lapic", or <br>> lapic=on" (without the double quotes) , but no success.<br>> <br>> Anyone have any suggestion how to use lapic, or even if this might solve the <br>> problem?<br><br>All you need to do is append "lapic" to the kernel line in grub:<br><br> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb<br> quiet lapic<br><br>(all on one line). That may not solve your issue. You may need to use<br>"noapic" instead:<br><br> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb<br> quiet noapic<br><br><br></blockquote>My box has the same problem but appending lapic or noapic does not solve the problem !<br><br><p> 
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