[tshering]

Originally Posted by trekk

You are right. Emergency poweroff was not installed on this particular device.



Yes, this is the correlating excerpt:

01/18/17-11:20:53 ERROR cannot open translation file: l10n/en_US/koreader.po
./luajit: ./ffi/framebuffer_linux.lua:60: unknown bpp value for the eink driver
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'error'
	./ffi/framebuffer_linux.lua:60: in function 'init'
	./ffi/framebuffer_mxcfb.lua:290: in function 'init'
	./ffi/framebuffer.lua:59: in function 'new'
	frontend/device/kobo/device.lua:127: in function 'init'
	frontend/device.lua:39: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	frontend/ui/uimanager.lua:1: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	./reader.lua:93: in main chunk
	[C]: at 0x00013e85

Thank you again. Maybe reading the fbset values before and after starting nickel can help to find an easy solution.

BTW: I thought it is difficult to test the emergency power off without using telnet. But here is your chance.