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Re: Computer won't power off



On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:37:39PM -0800, jennyw wrote:
| After upgrading to Woody I noticed that the computer doesn't power down when
| I issue the "poweroff" command. Is this the way it's supposed to be in
| Woody?

What kernel version are you using?  Do you have "apm=on" on the kernel
command line?  ("cat /proc/cmdline" to check)

I didn't know about the "poweroff" command, but it is just a symlink
to /sbin/halt which is what I use.

-D

-- 

the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash,
it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.



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