Halt not working

[Jeff Vian]

Joseph Rice wrote:

>I do have had the same problem.  I use init 0 instead of halt.  you can just set up an alias for halt 
>alias halt='init 0' 
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I have historically had one or more machines that failed to power off 
when I used the shutdown command.
halt, shutdown, and poweroff all had the same behavior.  Using "init 0" 
had the same results.

After reading this thread I added the "apic=yes" option to the grub.conf 
file (default is apparently apic=no) and now they work perfectly. They 
all shutdown and power off as expected, with no hangs or messages 
waiting for the user to turn it off.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerrit <gerrit at nl.linux.org>
>To: Alberto Molteni <alberto_molteni at yahoo.com>
>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:40:55 +0100
>Subject: Re: Halt not working
>
>Alberto Molteni wrote:
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>>   When I try to halt the machine I see all the apps
>>shutting down OK (except the mouse services, but I've
>>read that's quite normal) and then... nothing happens!
>>It gets as far as to:
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>>Flushing ide devices: hda hdb
>>Power down.
>>
>>or something like that. And then the computer hangs,
>>and I can just press the restart button. Rebooting
>>works (except a few occasional hangs on "Unmounting
>>file systems", but that doesn't bother me much).
>>Is there something wrong with the OS? Or is it
>>something to do with the BIOS or the ATX supply?
>>    
>>
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>You need to configure APM, Advanced Power Management, but some hardware
>is unable to do that.
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>Gerrit.
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