I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
Thanks ahead of time :)
Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549
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On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
buggy acpi support on server? Try updating to latest bios?
-- Eero
I may do that... However, being that it works in Fedora - was hoping maybe it was something else :)
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Eero Volotinen wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
buggy acpi support on server? Try updating to latest bios?
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252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work)
Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim
Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros
Eero Volotinen wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
buggy acpi support on server? Try updating to latest bios?
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
Neat - I'll give that a try. The machine is running Fedora right now...but maybe I'll reinstall CentOS :)
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote:
Eero Volotinen wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
buggy acpi support on server? Try updating to latest bios?
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 02/28/2010 05:25 PM Michael Klinosky wrote:
Eero Volotinen wrote:
On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
Great work, Michael! Where did you insert/type in "acpi=force"?
ken wrote:
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
Great work, Michael! Where did you insert/type in "acpi=force"?
In /boot/grub/grub.conf, there is a line (there may be more) that begins with 'kernel' - put it at the end of that line.
Finally moved that machine over to CentOS 5.5 - and tried the acpi=force....
It worked!
Thanks again - that is awesome!!!!
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote:
ken wrote:
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.
Great work, Michael! Where did you insert/type in "acpi=force"?
In /boot/grub/grub.conf, there is a line (there may be more) that begins with 'kernel' - put it at the end of that line.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
mark
Yes, it is just the Opiplex. I've got an AMD Compaq Presario, Dell Poweredge SC430 and 4400 as well as a crappy ol' Latitude laptop - all running CentOS...poweroff works fine on them all :) Its not a big deal - just annoying :)
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the same results...
Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions?
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
mark
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Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549
252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work)
Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim
Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'.
Here are the specs: mb: Gigabyte GA-7ZX rev 1.0 cs: VIA KT133/686A cpu: AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz socket: A/462 os: CentOS 5.3 RAM: 384 MB video: GeForce4 MX440
I recently bought it (used), and this is the only OS I've used on it (not even a previous CentOS).
What can I check? (logs? ...) What should I look for?
Michael Klinosky wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'.
Use either poweroff or shutdown -h
mark
I tried both - same result :(
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, mark wrote:
Michael Klinosky wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'.
Use either poweroff or shutdown -h
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252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work)
Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim
Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros
Scott wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, mark wrote:
Michael Klinosky wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'.
Use either poweroff or shutdown -h
I tried both - same result :(
At that point I wonder about a bios setting.
mark, not top posting
So, the bios is the latest offered by Dell... I tried different power settings - the result is the same. It does poweroff under Fedora as expected :(
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Scott wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, mark wrote:
Michael Klinosky wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on well over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just fine.
I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'.
Use either poweroff or shutdown -h
I tried both - same result :(
At that point I wonder about a bios setting.
mark, not top posting
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549
252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work)
Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim
Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros
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