something triggers a reboot after every shutdown

[Albert Wagner]

On 05/02/2012 01:43 AM, Patrick Asselman wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:55:40 -0500, Albert Wagner wrote:
>> I'm guessing that it's hardware, but I really don't know. Does anyone
>> know how I would go about troubleshooting this?  I know next to
>> nothing about hardware. The machine is a Dell 2400 with a newly
>> installed GeForce 8400 GS,  running 11.04.
>
> It could be a setting in the bios, auto restart after power failure?
Yes, I have checked that.
> Though really it shouldn't do this after a shutdown. You are doing a 
> "sudo shutdhown -P" I presume?
I've tried both -h and -P.  Thank you, Patrick.
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick Asselman
>