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

[Geoff Levand]

On 06/06/2008 01:48 PM, 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.

It sounds like either you don't have ps3-sys-manager loaded, or
you have a module that is not properly shutting down.

Please post your config.

> When shutting down it gets right to the point where it says it's about
> to power off, then it just hangs.
> 
> It appears it's affected by video mode changes (see final comment [1]).
> Note the kernels it's reported against are probably configured to use
> 18MB for the ps3fb, as that's the way it's been set in Ubuntu so far, I
> don't know if that makes a difference? (I will be acting on the advice
> given in prev thread to change to 9MB as soon as I can).

I don't think it likely this would effect it, but it may if the fb driver
is the thing hanging up.

-Geoff