satelliteuser083 Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 Suddenly, my Thinkpad T42 refuses - under 2007 - to switch off following selection of "Log Off/Turn Off Computer". No great sweat, but it works correctly under XP-Pro and I can't think of anything that I've changed/downloaded which may have caused the problem. Does the system keep a log of the shut-down procedure, that I could examine to investigate this a bit further? Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 Have you checked your settings in KDE Control Centre--> KDE Components--> Session Manager--> Default Shutdown Option? Are you able to shutdown from commandline using either power off or shutdown -h now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted July 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Sorry, the misunderstanding was my lack of accuracy :wacko: . The machine starts the shut-down procedure correctly and displays (in verbose-mode) the two final statements "Halting System...." and "System halted"; previously, at this point it then actually also switched off. Now, however, it just sits there and I have to press the power-button myself. As I said, it's no great sweat to do this, I'd just like to know why the switch-off fails. BTW, "shutdown -h now" has the same effect - procedure correct up to but excluding the actual switch-off. The OS doesn't understand "power off", however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Probably something to do with acpi being disabled, what's the kernel boot line say from /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf (whichever one you're using). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted July 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Yup, that seems to have been it, the boot-line in /boot/grub/menu.lst contained "acpi=ht". I reinstated acpi with MCC and now it switches off, as before. Many thanks. :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Great :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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