poweroff command reboots?

[Aero Maxx]

On 22/03/2014 14:26, g wrote:
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> 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?
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> also, when you have grub boot screen up, you can use power
> switch to turn system off.
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Sort of.

I do shutdown as I normally would and then wait for the power to resume 
then push and hold the power button on the case to cut the power.

I don't have a mouse or keyboard on the machine itself, and also i'm not 
booting into runlevel 3 so there is no gui, just a console screen.

Thanks
Daniel.