[mythtv-users] Annoying shutdown problem

Michael A Weber mweberjunk01 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 09:54:50 UTC 2016


> On Sep 5, 2016, at 4:43 AM, David Cunningham <ml at upsilon.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've been running MythTV 0.27 or Debian Jessie for a while without problem. I've just switched to 0.28 on Debian Stretch and have been hit with an annoying problem on the frontend.
> 
> The frontend is netbooted and controlled by a Harmony remote sending commands to an iMon receiver.
> 
> I map the power command on the remote to a shutdown command in the lircrc config file. On Jessie this worked fine. The power button was mapped to "sudo halt" and the system shut down as expected.
> 
> On Stretch/0.28 no such luck. The system shuts down OK but never powers off. It gets to a point where the last message is (something like - don't remember the message) "Shutdown complete, system halted" then freezes, i.e. the fronted does not power off and is not responsive to anything but manually pressing the physical power button on the frontend itself. It then boots on the next powerup as expected.
> 
> I've tried changing the shutdown command, all of:
> 
> /sbin/halt
> /sbin/shutdown -h now
> /sbin/poweroff
> 
> behave the same way, i.e. the system does not power off.
> 
> From googling I've tried adding acpi=forced as a kernel parameter but this has no affect.
> 
> Interestingly if I ssh into the frontend or attach a keyboard and login to a different terminal and execute any of the shutdown commands the frontend powers off correctly.
> 
> To me, this suggestes that there's some interaction between lirc and the shutdown process.
> 
> Any suggestions - it's extremely frustrating at present having to manually poweroff the fronted!
> 
> Cheers,
> David
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David—

Have you tried shutdown -P now?

That’s the only way I get my ACPI-enabled virtual machines to power off.

Hope this helps,

Mike



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