Halt not working

[Matthew Miller]

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.

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