Halt not working

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Tom Taylor wrote:

> > 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.
>

I actually found the solution:
Look at /etc/init.d/halt

A
touch /poweroff
does a poweroff ... :-)

With
rm -f /poweroff
you can remove the behaviour again.

Ciao,
Gerhard