--- title: Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A... description: Linux 7.1 will change its default behavior when encountering fatal ACPI errors: instead of just logging the error and continuing, the kernel will attempt to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-1-will-power-off-the-system-by-default-if-a-fatal-acpi-error-occurs-8skcsp0oy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs | daily.dev og:description: Linux 7.1 will change its default behavior when encountering fatal ACPI errors: instead of just logging the error and continuing, the kernel will attempt to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-1-will-power-off-the-system-by-default-if-a-fatal-acpi-error-occurs-8skcsp0oy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8sKCSp0OY.png og:image:alt: Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux 7.1 will change its default behavior when encountering fatal ACPI errors: instead of just logging the error and continuing, the kernel will attempt to power off the system automatically. This aligns Linux with the ACPI specification, which requires the OS to perform a controlled shutdown upon fatal ACPI events. Users who want to preserve the old behavior can set the new kernel parameter `acpi.poweroff_on_fatal=0`. The change is currently queued in the linux-pm 'linux-next' branch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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