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
