This is not the power switch you are looking for

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 13:14 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> Fallout from usrmove, perhaps?  I tried to shutdown a VM running Rawhide:
> 
> Clicked on the power button symbol in the upper right hand corner of
> the GDM desktop and chose "Power Off".  Nothing.  Clicked it again,
> just in case.  Nothing.
> 
> Okay, so Ctrl-Alt-F3, login as root, and then this:
> 
> [root at jerry-rawhide32 ~]# shutdown -P now
> Unknown operation now
> [root at jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man shutdown
> 
> Nope, I had the syntax right.  Well, there's a poweroff command,
> right?  Haven't used it for awhile...
> 
> [root at jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man poweroff
> man: can't open /usr/share/man/halt.8: No such file or directory
> [root at jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man halt
> 
> Okay, that worked.  I don't need to pass any arguments, just plain
> poweroff.  Cool.
> 
> [root at jerry-rawhide32 ~]# poweroff
> UNIT                      LOAD   ACTIVE SUB       JOB DESCRIPTION
> proc-sys...misc.automount loaded active waiting     Arbitrary Executable File
> 
> ... followed by several more pages of systemd output piped to less.
> 
> Okay, I give up.  How am I supposed to turn this thing off?

Shutting down can occasionally get a bit wiggy after a systemd version
update. Was this right after you did a big F16 -> F17 yum update or
anything? If so, you may find you have to just suck it up and hard power
off one time, then it'll be back to working properly on the next boot.
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