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Re: Computer won't power off



Is there any way to force the computer to power itself off
if it's compiled with SMP?  

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:00:31PM -0500, dman wrote:
> 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.



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