Re: Debian shutdown
"B. L. Jilek" <bljilek@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007, Francis Healy wrote:
>
> gunnar wrote: I've carried out a
> network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso and my
> problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting it
> down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose my
> Windows-partition in GRUB and carry out the shutdown from Windows.
> Thank God for my Windows-partition, without it I would have to
> pull the plug to shut down Debian. Can anybody tell me a better
> way of shutting down Debian?
> Gunnar Sjöö 'shutdown -h now'
> doesn't work?
He is probably talking about the system not powering off after a
shutdown. I think one post already said that he can power off the
system by holding the power button in for a
couple of seconds until
it powers off.
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I only check this e-mail account once a day so I hadn't seen the other responses when I responded. When you use shutdown -h now on a system that doesn't shut off by itself (I have a few of these), the last message you see is 'power down' indicating it is oK to shut off the PC. His message sounded like the menu shutdown was hanging. I have had a few systems do this, they usually hang with just the wallpaper showing. In this case, I avoid using the gnome menu and shutdown from the command prompt.
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