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Old 02-21-2008, 10:28 AM
Eric Edwards
 
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Default Re: Gnome shutdown suspends, does not power off

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:24:17 -0400, Arthur Hagen <art@broomstick.com> wrote:
>Eric Edwards <ese002@news9.exile.org> wrote:
>> Shutdown works fine, powering off the machine like I would expect.
>> Gnome, however, doesn't quite get there. The OS shuts down and the
>> video goes off, but the power light is still on and the power supply
>> fan is still turning. It is rather like a low power suspend state
>> common with laptops except without the benefit of a still-running OS.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to fix this?

>
>Do you use splashutils compiled into the kernel (not initrd)?


Not deliberately. Where does the splashutils option live in menuconfig?

> There's a
>bug where /lib/splash/cache is incorrectly mounted and can't be cleanly
>unmounted.


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