powering down issue?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:28:10PM -0500, randy jernigan wrote:

> 	I've only had Ubuntu running for a few days and am having a wonderful
> time thus far... until I actually shut the computer down.  It gets to
> the last line concerning powering down and hangs.  I'm waiting for a
> reasonable time and just holding the power button down till it dies.
> I'm not seeing any obvious weirdness in the scrolling messages as
> everything is closing.... I'm running an old PIII 550 on an Asus 440BX
> motherboard with 128mb RAM and a WD 8 gig Hard drive- yep I know, hardly
> cutting edge but it still should auto power down, right?  Thanks for any
> help.

Make sure that you are running the latest packages, especially the kernel
and acpi-support.  There were several fixes in this area recently.

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 - mdz