Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

Vayu vayu at sklinks.com
Tue Mar 21 06:36:15 UTC 2006


On Monday 20 March 2006 20:04, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
> 
> > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts
> > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying
> > this message:
> >
> > "The operating system has halted.
> > Please press any key to reboot."
> >
> > Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have
> > to hold the power button down for several seconds to
> > get a forced power-off or pull the plug.
> >
> > How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login
> > panel turns the machine off?
> >
> > Malcolm
> 
> 
> It might be helpful to mention your windowing
> system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference.
> 
> Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's
> ACPI.  What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish
> your OS version first).
> 


I don't know about how your window system shuts down, but from the command 
line I had the same problem.  I was using "shutdown -h now" and it would give 
me the same message that the system was halted, press any key to reboot.  I 
later learned that "shutdown -p now" would shut the power off as well.  Maybe 
your window system is doing the equivalent of -h instead of -p.



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