Halt not working

[Tom Taylor]

> It gets as far as to:
> 
> Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
> Power down.
> 
> or something like that. And then the computer hangs,
> and I can just press the restart button. Rebooting
> works (except a few occasional hangs on "Unmounting
> file systems", but that doesn't bother me much).
> Is there something wrong with the OS? Or is it
> something to do with the BIOS or the ATX supply?
> 
> I read someone else had problems when shutting down
> remotely. Could be something similar?

I always do 'shutdown -h now'. The -h puts the machine into halt, 
actually turning it off.

Regards,

Tom