[ale] RedHat 7.2 Power Off Doesn't :-(

[Robert Heaven]

I had the same problem in Mandrake 8.1. The script /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt 
was using a "halt -p" which is supposted to be a "powerdown" option. 
Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my hardware (but Winblows does) so I 
had to "vi" the halt script and take out the "-p" option because I got 
tired of seeing the trap errors.

Danny Cox wrote:

>I've been running RH 6.2 on my notebook for over a year.  I was using
>the 2.4.17-XFS kernel, with APM.  "halt", "shutdown -h now", and "init
>0" all worked as expected, with the "Power down" message, and the system
>would turn itself off.  Fine, dandy, just what I wanted!
>
>Then, I upgraded to RH 7.2.  Everything else works peachy.  It just
>won't power off.  I've tired both APM, and ACPI.  I've rather confused,
>since before and after the upgrade, the kernel was the same, and it's
>the kernel that requests the power be cut.  I'm at a loss, though.
>
>Ideas?  Thoughts?  Incantations?
>
>Thanks!
>



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