Re: shutdown fails to power off host

[Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com>]

On 5 January 2017 at 09:09, Bob McGowan <ramjr0915@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote:
> I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as
> the subject, and found several references to emails with similar
> problems.  However, no exact solution was proposed.
>
> And this actually only happens on one of the two systems I have Debian
> installed on.
>
> I'm using testing (stretch).
>
> When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from
> systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown".
>

I get that when I use 'sudo halt'

When I use 'sudo halt -p'  it powers off.

So I would suggest you look at the underlying command on the button of the computer which do not power off and change the command.

Look at 'man shutdown'  for the options when you use 'shutdown'  in stead of 'halt'.

Regards

Johann