SLED 10 : Power off fails on a laptop when shutting down the system

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Situation

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10) was installed to a laptop. When powering off the laptop, the OS appears to completely shut down, but the laptop does not power off.

Resolution

Edit the /boot/grub/menu.1st file.
Locate the line beginning with "title" that uses your default boot system, e.g. "SUSE Linux Desktop 10".
On the indented lines below that, there will be a "kernel" line. Scroll to the end of this line.

Add " noacpi", e.g. the full line in the example resulted :

kernel /boot.vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts noacpi

Reboot the laptop.

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