poweroff command reboots?

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Sat Mar 22 14:26:56 UTC 2014



On 03/22/14 15:13, Aero Maxx wrote:
> On 22/03/2014 01:39, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
>> On 3/21/14, Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I have an issue where the poweroff command reboots my system.
>>>
>>> Using /sbin/shutdown -h also reboot the system.
>>>
>>> I am unsure whats causing this or how to go about finding the cause, I
>>> am not sure if its something I have done when I installed fedora or not.
>>>
>>> Pressing the power button on the front of my cause also makes the system
>>> reboot and not shutdown as expected.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Daniel.
>> Try using -P, -h doesn't work right for me, either. Frankly, I don't
>> know what shutdown -h refers to, anyways. I gather that it halts
>> something, but it doesn't turn off the machine.
> I tried to do /sbin/shutdown -P but this also reboots the machine.

have you tried watching for when system goes thru restart and
then using power switch to turn system off?

also, when you have grub boot screen up, you can use power
switch to turn system off.


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