Shutdown

[rolf]

[quote:5fe51afc55="rolf"][quote:5fe51afc55="cenerentola at despammed."]when i try to shutdown it just unmounts all the fs's and kill all the
processes correctly but it doesnt turn off the power.[/quote:5fe51afc55]

I have the same issue on my Dell Latitude CPx (laptop) and a homebrew desktop at home.[/quote:5fe51afc55]

Ah, quoting myself here.  Here is the solution that works for me:

add the word "apm" to the end of the /etc/modules.

A quick search here on 'shutdown' brought me to [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=65&highlight=shutdown[/url] which has the solution I mention.  Tested on my laptop and worked as advertised.  I did not have to modify my kernel cmdline.