Can't disable power management on Solaris 8

[Jackiebaron]

Hi folks,

I've tried everything. I edit the /etc/power.conf file and make sure "noshutdown" is there. The problem I have is that I launch the power management application from the CDE desktop and it immediately tells me that the setting have changed since last time or whatever and do I want t preserve or change them. then I get the little window stating what level of power management is being used (*customized* in my case). I try to change the drop down menu to Disabled or Standard and click OK but then I just get an error popup that states: "Error encountered changing power state" and that's it. Don't know what else to do. I'm logged on as root and this works fine on Solaris 9 CDE.
Thanks for any guidance.
j.

 

[spamly]

Have you considered disabling the power management on startup?

# mv /etc/rc2.d/s85power /etc/rc2.d/s85power.disabled

 

[spamly]

Correction:
# mv /etc/rc2.d/S85power /etc/rc2.d/s85power.disabled

 

[Jackiebaron]

Thanks spam...but there doesn't even exist a /etc/rc2.d/S85power startup file.

 

[Annihilannic]

Try having a look at the pmconfig man page and see if that points you in the right direction.

Annihilannic.

 

[spamly]

Are you using Solaris 10 then?

# [b]svcs -v power[/b]
STATE          NSTATE        STIME    CTID   FMRI
online         -             Sep_29        - svc:/system/power:default
# [b]svcadm disable power[/b]
# [b]svcs -v power[/b]
STATE          NSTATE        STIME    CTID   FMRI
disabled       -              8:49:16      - svc:/system/power:default

 

[spamly]

Strike that. I should have read the subject of this post.

 

[dvsweden]

I was having the same problem with a Solaris 10 box and the svcs did work! So thanks!