Re: Power-off on shutdown -h

[Michael Mansour <micoots yahoo com>]

Hi Sean,

> > >From a linux "shutdown -h now", they go to the
> "Power
> > down" prompt after shutting down the drives, but
> they
> > do not power-off.
> 
> See what happens when you use the "poweroff" command
> instead
> of shutdown.  And if that doesn't work, try a
> "poweroff -f".  The -f will
> force the issue and prove if the problem is with
> your init scripts or
> something at a lower level.   But be a bit careful
> with the -f because
> things don't get shut down gracefully, you wouldn't
> want to use it
> regularly, only to diagnose where the problem is.

I'll try this tonight and let you know what happens.
So far I have about 5 things to try to resolve this,
since the list has been very responsive.

I'll let you all know after tonight how things went.

Michael.


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