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And - although hitting the power button will clear up some situations, |
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if your hard disk is having trouble closing, shutdown() probably won't |
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be able to get around that and the shutdown will be like a power-loss |
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shutdown. |
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On 11/17/19 10:27, n952162 wrote: |
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> There's a million ways a system can hang. Acpi is a mechanism for |
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> shipping kernel events to user space. If user space isn't working, |
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> acpi won't work. I think. |
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> On 11/17/19 09:44, Dale wrote: |
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>> n952162 wrote: |
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>>> okay, I've got ... |
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>>> acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list [:blush:] |
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>>> Solution: |
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>>> sudo rc-update add acpid |
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>>> On 11/13/19 07:48, n952162 wrote: |
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>>>> I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power |
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>>>> button doesn't do a shutdown anymore. What do I have to do to have |
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>>>> it issue a shutdown? This is an openrc system. |
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>>>> I have this, but it doesn't work: |
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>>>> $ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn |
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>>>> event=button[ /]power.* |
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>>>> action=/sbin/poweroff |
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>>>> On a different gentoo system I have, I have just the one line, the |
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>>>> action line, in that file and the power-button works fine (whether |
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>>>> there's causation there or not, I have no idea :-) ) |
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>>>> I generally do /not/ press the power button while in my window |
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>>>> manager, but first when I've logged off. Since that wasn't working, |
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>>>> I tried inside my window manager ... I got a just a couple of lines |
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>>>> that looked like they came from shutdown(), but too few (couldn't |
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>>>> read them). |
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>>>> Then, on startup, the filesystems needed fscking!!! |
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>> I have a related question. If for some reason my system is locked |
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>> up, keyboard isn't working or something like that. If I have acpi in |
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>> working order, would hitting the power button be seen or would that |
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>> be the same as the keyboard and not be recognized? Anyone have |
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>> experience on this or read about someone who has ran into this? |
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>> Just curious but if the answer is yes, I may work on setting this up |
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>> and working. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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