FC7 Power Down/Power Button issue

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Jun 24 04:04:58 UTC 2007


Mike Cisar wrote:
> Have a new system, thought I’d use it to do some testing of FC7…  did a
> clean install, no additional packages other than the defaults.
> 
>  
> 
> Two problems…
> 
> - the system didn’t start to shut down when I hit the power switch
> 
> - when I did a shutdown –h  the system went through the shutdown
> process, said “system halted” and waited for me to press the power switch
> 
>  
> 
> Thinking perhaps it was the motherboard, I wiped that install and did a
> clean install of FC6.  No problem, shutdown starts when I push the power
> switch and the machine shuts off automatically.
> 
>  
> 
> Wiped the system yet again and did another  clean install of FC7…  this
> time the system does actually shutdown automatically when I do a
> shutdown –h but still no joy on having the shutdown start when I push
> the power button.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on what might be going on, and how I
> can get the “proper” behaviors working.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>>>>>> Mike <<<<<
> 
I am not sure if it is the same in F7, but you can in FC6 you can
control what happens when you hit the power button from Power
Manager. (gnome-power-manager)

Mikkel
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