HD Install :: complete shutdown on a Frugal install



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I tested that it does not work with liveCD DSL 3.0 and 3.2, but it works with liveCD knoppix 5.1.
Does anybody know what the difference between Knoppix and DSL could be at that level?
'Apologies if this is stating the obvious, but DSL is 2.4.26 and knoppix 5.1 is 2.6.x - I've found (for me at least) that anything to do with laptops/powersaving seems to work better in DSL-N (2.6.12) than DSL.

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ACPI BIOS found, activating modules ac battery button fan processor thermal
apm overriden by acpi
From this I believe you could use the bootcode "noapm" and your machine will load up the acpi modules on its own.

I have a Dell Latitude D400 and shutdown works fine - there is a module named i8k that is supposed to work with acpi on Dell laptops that you could try (I'm not using this at the moment and can't find where I put it...) to see if that helps.

Dell laptops are notorious for having acpi bugs in their BIOS - if you didn't do it already, flashing your BIOS to the latest version from Dell might help.
It took me some time to resume working on this issue for my first trial with apt-get install i8kutils ended  with lib6c not being installed. As I was already trying to install libc6 for  using perl modules (posted in apt section) I momentarily gave up the shutdown issue.
Now I can 'apt'  further and the i8kutils package tells me:
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invoke-rc.d applet not found

Does that remind you of anything?

By the way, I am already using noapm as cheatcode
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Does that remind you of anything?

In fact no, but I am not sure I compiled the utilities - I think I just loaded the module and looked at /proc/i8k.

BTW - looking at the DSL/Knoppix .config file, i8k is enabled as a module so if it isn't in DSL (I am not using DSL at the moment to check) it will be on the Knoppix 3.4 CD and directly useable in DSL.

All this being said, from looking here I am not sure that i8k will help with your issue unfortunately...
So invoke-rc.d needed a forced re-installation:
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sudo apt-get install file-rc

which will fail,
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sudo dpkg -i --force-all  /var/cache/apt/archives/file-rc_0.8.7_all.deb

makes the trick.
So invoke-rc.d needed a forced re-installation:
After
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sudo apt-get install file-rc

which will fail,
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sudo dpkg -i --force-all  /var/cache/apt/archives/file-rc_0.8.7_all.deb

makes the trick.
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