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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>