On Monday 25 Feb 2013 09:03:14 Rodney Baker wrote: Big thank you for this solution.
Hi all. Some time ago there was a thread about shutdown -p or poweroff not working under oS 12.2, and similarly with shutting down from kde/gnome also not powering off. I dont' recall seeing a resolution on that thread.
Recently I upgraded to 12.2 (via a clean install) from 11.4 and hit the same issue. Upgrading the kernel from 3.4.11 to 3.4.28 had no effect, and I checked and upgraded the motherboard bios with no result.
Then, I happened to be looking at /etc/default/grub for some reason and noticed that the default kernel parameters in that file (which are copied to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg - the grub2 equivalent of menu.lst) included "apm=off acpi=off"!
I also had "acpi=off", i've just removed it as per your email and now my machine powers off as it should, its been bugging me for ages. I followed the same upgrade procedure as you. I only had "apm=off" on the Failsafe option so i didn;t touch it.
Guess what happened when I removed those two parameters and re-ran grub2- mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg? That's right - acpi poweroff started working again!
Why were these 2 parameters included in the default boot params on a clean install of 12.2?
I'd be interested to see if this fixes it for anyone else who is having similar problems. Maybe this should be raised as an install bug? it certainly fixed it for me
Regards, Rodney.
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