Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

[n952162]

There's a million ways a system can hang.  Acpi is a mechanism for
shipping kernel events to user space.  If user space isn't working, acpi
won't work.   I think.


On 11/17/19 09:44, Dale wrote:
> n952162 wrote:
>>
>> okay, I've got ...
>>
>> acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list [:blush:]
>>
>> Solution:
>>
>>     sudo rc-update add acpid
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/19 07:48, n952162 wrote:
>>>
>>> I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power
>>> button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do to have
>>> it issue a shutdown?  This is an openrc system.
>>>
>>> I have this, but it doesn't work:
>>>
>>> $ cat  /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
>>> event=button[ /]power.*
>>> action=/sbin/poweroff
>>>
>>> On a different gentoo system I have, I have just the one line, the
>>> action line, in that file and the power-button works fine (whether
>>> there's causation there or not, I have no idea :-) )
>>>
>>> I generally do /not/ press the power button while in my window
>>> manager, but first when I've logged off.  Since that wasn't working,
>>> I tried inside my window manager ... I got a just a couple of lines
>>> that looked like they came from shutdown(), but too few (couldn't
>>> read them).
>>>
>>> Then, on startup, the filesystems needed fscking!!!
>>>
>>
>
>
> I have a related question.  If for some reason my system is locked up,
> keyboard isn't working or something like that.  If I have acpi in
> working order, would hitting the power button be seen or would that be
> the same as the keyboard and not be recognized?  Anyone have
> experience on this or read about someone who has ran into this?
>
> Just curious but if the answer is yes, I may work on setting this up
> and working.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)