Messages in this thread | | | From | "Helmut Naughton" <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:25:16 +0200 | Subject | Re: why does no kernel turn off the power ? |
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On 15 Jun 99, at 0:11, Jochen Heuer wrote: Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > What distribution of linux do you use? I have the same problem > > using SuSE 6.1 and i guess the error is somewhere in the > > shutdown process (just guessing). I have a FIC VL-601 mainboard > > and i am using the SuSE kernel 2.2.5, the developer kernel 2.3.6 > > and the ac version 2.3.5ac1. Since it does't work in either of them, i > > don't guess it's a kernel problem. Somebody would have noticed. > > But i haven't contacted the folks at SuSE yet, amybe after this is > > resolved... > > If your sysvinit is not too old you can try _shutdown -p now_ or > _poweroff_.
I have the sysvinit version used in SuSE 6.1 (schouldn't be too old; how can i find out? where could i upgrade) and *neither* of them works, it just halts and then sits there.
-Helmut
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