Precise 561 won't power off

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Ed Howdershelt
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Precise 561 won't power off

#1 Post by Ed Howdershelt »

It's a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Puppy 5.6.1 full install in its own partition with a swap partition.
After I'd raved about Puppy for close to a year, she dug this lappie out to have me install Puppy on a dual boot with WinXP.

So... of course the installation went fast and easy and everything worked and she marveled appropriately, then... Embarrassment. Wailing and gnashing of teeth and such.

I hit the power off icon and Puppy said it was shutting down.
The screen didn't change and the power down didn't happen.
After more than a minute, I held the power button to turn the lappie off.

Powering on again went fine, grub came up, choice was made, Puppy booted up. But it was as if it was a brand new install. Set screen res, connect wifi, do firewall, etc. Software I'd installed before wasn't on the menu. Package manager didn't list it as installed, either.
Installed Filezilla, but didn't go through other installs again, just hit the 'off' icon to see if Puppy would shut down properly. Nope. Still hung up on the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.
Had to use the power button again.

Restart. Booted as before. This time the menu showed Filezilla. I installed some other stuff. All showed up where expected.
Hit the power off icon. Puppy froze at the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.

Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Ed

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Re: Precise 561 won't power off

#2 Post by rjbrewer »

Ed Howdershelt wrote:It's a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop.

Restart. Booted as before. This time the menu showed Filezilla. I installed some other stuff. All showed up where expected.
Hit the power off icon. Puppy froze at the 'Puppy is shutting down' screen.

Is there a fix for this?
Thanks,
Ed
On my 700m laptop with a Precise full install, I added "acpi=
force" (no quotes) to the kernel line in boot-grub-menu.lst to
solve the power off or reboot problem.

After the first successful reboot or power off it was no longer
necessary to have that addition to menu.lst.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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#3 Post by Ed Howdershelt »

> On my 700m laptop with a Precise full install, I added "acpi=force" (no quotes) to the kernel line in boot-grub-menu.lst to solve the power off or reboot problem.
> After the first successful reboot or power off it was no longer
necessary to have that addition to menu.lst.

Tried putting that here:

# Full installed Linux

title Precise Puppy 5.6.1 (sda2/boot)
uuid 15b13fa1-06a3-4cc0-8340-992b27f7a436
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro acpi=force

Either it didn't work or I got it wrong somehow.
Ed

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#4 Post by scabz »

-- edit nevermind you said full install-- removed post.

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