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

[Geoff Levand]

On 06/06/2008 03:15 PM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> 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.

ps3-lpm is the driver for the logical performance monitor, used
for profiling by oprofile and perfmon2.

You need ps3-sys-manager (CONFIG_PS3_SYS_MANAGER).  It controls shutdown
and reboot.

-Geoff