[ovirt-users] fail to shutdown ubuntu guest

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:22:37AM +0800, John Xue wrote:
> I went through the xfce GUI options "Settings Manager" - "Power
> Manager" to the field "When power button is pressed", set to power
> off, but only successful one time, after reboot it was already set to
> "Ask". If no one login to guest(just power on from console, and power
> off), it always fail.
> 
> I try to modify acpi configuration:
> #cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
> event=button[ /]power
> #action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
> action=/sbin/poweroff
> 
> It work, but I think this isn't a good solution. Any idea? Thanks!
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:37:19PM +0000, Sven Kieske wrote:
> >> are you sure acpid is running inside the guest?
> >
> > ... or a guest agent?
> 
> yes, both of them are running in guest.
> 
> >
> > Can you find the shutdown request on /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log on the host
> > that runs your guest?
> 
> yes, this is the log:
> 
> Thread-158109::DEBUG::2014-06-12
> 16:08:26,589::BindingXMLRPC::965::vds::(wrapper) client
> [10.10.10.75]::call vmShutdown with
> ('b552d1aa-bc35-4788-a448-1726d4b984d5', '30', 'System Administrator
> has initiated shutdown of this Virtual Machine. Virtual Machine is
> shutting down.') {} flowID [5939b847]
> Thread-158109::DEBUG::2014-06-12
> 16:08:26,590::vm::2532::vm.Vm::(shutdown)
> vmId=`b552d1aa-bc35-4788-a448-1726d4b984d5`::guestAgent shutdown
> called
> Thread-158109::DEBUG::2014-06-12
> 16:08:26,590::guestIF::304::vm.Vm::(desktopShutdown)
> vmId=`b552d1aa-bc35-4788-a448-1726d4b984d5`::desktopShutdown called
> Thread-158109::DEBUG::2014-06-12
> 16:08:26,591::BindingXMLRPC::972::vds::(wrapper) return vmShutdown
> with {'status': {'message': 'Machine shut down', 'code': 0}}

I there no attempt to use ACPI lower in the logs?

Anyway, it seems that an ACPI even is received by the guest. Could you
now share the log of your guest agent, in order to see if it received
the shutdown request and handled it somehow?