Power off button acting differently?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I've recently noticed that my classroom machines are acting 
differently when using the power button to shut down. With past 
versions and originally with Fedora 16, the power button would 
cause it to do the same as a shutdown. But know it seems to go 
into a hibernation mode, and the power light is blinking. 

Attempts to get it to wake up fail, and only pressing and holding 
the power button in to shut it down, or removing power will get it to 
go off. Then for some reason, it will then boot up, and then restart 
again before going to a normal operation?

Is there some setting to get the power button to do a shutdown 
and not a hibernation or sleep?

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  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
  mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net                            
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  Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
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