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. -- Regards, Res
