Shutdown Problem with 6.10

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:58:47 -0600
Gerry Visel <gcvisel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone out there know if there is a fix for the inability of
> (k)ubuntu to shutdown the computer?  Since I upgraded from Dapper Drake,
> it just hangs at the shutdown screen and does not shut off the box,
> (like DD.)

Try this perhaps:

"5.1.2 Automatic poweroff stops working"

"On some older systems, shutdown -h will not poweroff anymore (but just
stop the system). This happens because apm needs to be used there. Adding
acpi=off apm=power_off to the kernels command line, e.g. via grub or lilo
configurations file will fix this issue."

From
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-poweroff

It looks like the same bug, although, if your system is recent, the apm
issue may not be the problem. See also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390547

Peter