[Cbe-oss-dev] Cannot power-off/shutdown/halt, hangs instead

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 22:48 , Dan Munckton wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I'm investigating this issue [0] that occurs with the stock
> powerpc64-smp kernels in Ubuntu (2.6.2[45]), but not when built using
> ps3_defconfig.
>
> When shutting down it gets right to the point where it says it's about
> to power off, then it just hangs.
> [...]
> Can anyone provide me any direction here?

You need to have some special module loaded (or built into the  
kernel).  Looking at the output of lsmod here, I think it is ps3_lpm.

Kind regards.