Thinkpad dosn't reboot on shutdown -r now

[Brad Schonhorst]

On Sep 20, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have experienced a strange thing. All the way from 5.x to 6-CURRENT,
> my system almost never reboots on the "shutdown -r now" command. It
> shuts down completely, turns off the screen, and when one actually
> expects to see the IBM logo again the backlight suddenly is turned on
> again and that's it. Any hints?

If I remember correctly the -r flag reboots.  The -p flag will  
powerdown. So

shutdown -p now

is what you want.

-Brad