Re: [SLE] Can't power down with SuSE 9.0

From: BandiPat (penguin0601_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/29/04

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    On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:54 pm, James Knott wrote:
    > I've discovered that I cannot power down my sytem, except with the
    > power switch. I've tried halt, halt -p, shutdown, telinit 0 etc.,
    > and the result is always the same. Instead of the computer turning
    > off or even halting, it always reboots. As I'm running this computer
    > on a UPS, this is a critical matter. Power down worked fine on this
    > computer, when running Red Hat 7.3. The mother board is an ASUS
    > A&V266-E & Athlon XP 1700+ CPU.
    >
    > tnx jk
    =============

    Isn't this usually attributed to ACPI? Is that module loaded with your
    kernel? That's the only time I have had to turn a computer off
    manually, when ACPI wasn't loaded or the motherboard has a faulty or
    buggy version of it.

    Regards,
    Lee

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