In article <45CADAE9.5080002@xxxxxxx>, Sebastian Springer <sspringer82@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Fraser wrote: > > Something else that has started causing me trouble today is that if I > > select shutdown from the menu, the machine just finishes on 'system > > halt' and doesn't actually shutdown. I'm able to use the same menu to > > do a restart. > > > You just have to add the following kernel options to your > /boot/grub/grub.conf > acpi=off apm=on apm=power-off That file's empty on my system. Anyway, the computer shut down fine before I made the switch to KDM. I think it has something to do with the setting of 'sbin/halt' in the configuration, but trying 'sbin/shutdown' doesn't seem to work either.