On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 19:20 -0500, Tom Coburn wrote: > bug has already been reported to bugzilla > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139211 > > lots of people are having this problem with FC3, noone has found a solution yet. I append acpi=off to /etc/grub.conf kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet acpi=off Now I can shutdown and poweroff. hope this solve your problem