[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#775812: base: HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop fails to halt/poweroff after 15/12/2015 upgrade

[Tim]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:42:05 +0100 Miguel <miguel.ortiz-lombardia at igs.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing (jessie) on an HP EliteBook 840 G1 laptop.
> Everything goes reasonably well, even very well, except that after
> running apt-get update/upgrade on Monday (15 December) I cannot halt
> (poweroff) the computer. When I try to switch it off it just reboots. I
> manage to get it in sleep mode by pressing the the physical start button
> and this is what I'm doing since then. No previous problems in this
> sense before that upgrade. I have 'intel-microcode' and
> 'firmware-linux-free' installed from the beginning.

I can confirm this problem on exactly the same notebook and with
'intel-microcode' installed as well.

> After that report I was able to sometimes halt the computer correctly either
> from the gnome interface or from the console.

I would like to add that I also didn't succeed in halting the notebook
by using the GRUB command 'halt', it just rebooted after entering this
command.