Halt not working

[Res]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:07:44AM -0800, Alberto Molteni wrote:
> >    When I try to halt the machine I see all the apps
> > shutting down OK (except the mouse services, but I've
> > read that's quite normal) and then... nothing happens!
> > It gets as far as to:
> > Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
> > Power down.
>
> That's done. Halt doesn't necessarily turn the power off -- it just halts
> the system. Try 'poweroff' instead.
>

I've seen this happen on some boxes even with poweroff, bugger if I can
remember how I fixed it though.


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Regards,
Res