x86_64 rawhide: Poweroff just shuts down

[Horst H. von Brand]

Try as I may, for some time now I can't get my machines to poweroff. I've
got 3 machines affected: A Toshiba Satellite Pro U400, a Samsung N210
netbook and a white box old dual-core AMD64 (that one has an idiotic BIOS
that sometimes doesn't shutdown/poweroff properly, but now it is completely
consistent).

Here on the Toshiba I've looked more closely into the issue: If I run
poweroff (from the Gnome menu or by hand as root) the machine shuts down
(sort of): CapsLock still toggles the LED (even on an USB keyboard), I can
alt-F? to change ttys (even over USB), but there is no other reaction to
keypresses. No HDD activity indication, nothing. I have to press the power
switch a long time (a short press initiates soft shutdown, no reaction to
that) to poweroff. Nothing relevant shows up in /var/log/messages.

I see part of the boot messages, ending with:

plymouthd: could not log boot: Address already in use

on tty.

Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a
separate partition (really LVM2 volume).

[Michal Schmidt]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:05:20 -0300 Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Try as I may, for some time now I can't get my machines to poweroff.

The BZ you reported is waiting for info from you:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642347

Michal

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 19.11.10 10:05, Horst H. von Brand ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Try as I may, for some time now I can't get my machines to poweroff. I've
> got 3 machines affected: A Toshiba Satellite Pro U400, a Samsung N210
> netbook and a white box old dual-core AMD64 (that one has an idiotic BIOS
> that sometimes doesn't shutdown/poweroff properly, but now it is completely
> consistent).
>
> Here on the Toshiba I've looked more closely into the issue: If I run
> poweroff (from the Gnome menu or by hand as root) the machine shuts down
> (sort of): CapsLock still toggles the LED (even on an USB keyboard), I can
> alt-F? to change ttys (even over USB), but there is no other reaction to
> keypresses. No HDD activity indication, nothing. I have to press the power
> switch a long time (a short press initiates soft shutdown, no reaction to
> that) to poweroff. Nothing relevant shows up in /var/log/messages.
>
> Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a
> separate partition (really LVM2 volume).

See my comments on the bug you filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642347

The bug is actually in NEEDINFO state.

Lennart