On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 17:52 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> I attempted to take both Rick Stevens' and Tom Horsley's
advice as
> follows:
>
> 1. Log off my KDE session using the GUI.
> 2. Open a console window using CTRL/ALT/F2
> 3. Log in as root
> 4. Enter shutdown -h now
>
> Result, exactly the same as before. System appears to halt properly
> except for faint light around the start button, but can't be rebooted
> without being reset, messages from systemd-fsck in boot.log.
I'm wondering if perhaps that's something from the BIOS causing that...
like "wake on LAN" or something. You might want to reboot the machine
and verify that the BIOS permits going to a full powerdown state as
opposed to some hibernation state.
A good thought. But I had no trouble with powering down till I
installed Fedora-18. Sleep works fine now, as it always did.
One change in BIOS settings: I disabled "Quick Boot", since I was having
trouble getting into the BIOS by pressing DEL during BIOS hardware test
A new keyboard, which plugs into a USB port was not being recognized by
the BIOS at test time; disabling "Quick Boot" slows down the boot
process and allows me to get into the BIOS reliably. I'll try
re-enabling "Quick Boot" tomorrow to see if it makes any difference.
jon