Two old problems with FC6 re-noted.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 17:50 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 04:53 +0000, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> >> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:55:09 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I have had two problems from the first with FC6 on admittedly old Dell
> >> > (circa 2000) hardware.
> >> > 1. Even though the shutdown command shutdown the hardware in FCn n<6 and
> >> > today in Ubuntu, it refuses to shut down in FC6. That is all the
> >> > commands you would expect are executed in shutdown, I can hear the tel
> >> > tale click but the computer power is not shut off. acpi on or off makes
> >> > no difference.
> >> 
> >> poweroff
> > poweroff still does not shut off the power to the machine.
> 
> I have the same problem on an old (1998) pentium2; I have to walk around
> behind the machine, hold the poweroff, and pull the power cord out for a
> few seconds; if I put it back too soon, the machine reboots.
> 
> FC6 does not do this on any of three other machines, nor does FC6.ppc on
> an old (2002) G3 iBook.
> 
All I have to do is hit the power button and the machine goes off. I
know of no other version that has this problem on this machine other
than FC6. I have used several on it and the poweroff works. I am still
waiting for someone to explain this obvious bug in FC6 on older
hardware, or at least this old hardware.
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