Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:36:06 -0800 From: Vayu <vayu@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? Message-ID: <200603202236.07019.vayu@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <441F7B6B.3030206@daleco.biz> References: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> <441F7B6B.3030206@daleco.biz>
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On Monday 20 March 2006 20:04, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > > > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts > > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying > > this message: > > > > "The operating system has halted. > > Please press any key to reboot." > > > > Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have > > to hold the power button down for several seconds to > > get a forced power-off or pull the plug. > > > > How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login > > panel turns the machine off? > > > > Malcolm > > > It might be helpful to mention your windowing > system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference. > > Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's > ACPI. What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish > your OS version first). > I don't know about how your window system shuts down, but from the command line I had the same problem. I was using "shutdown -h now" and it would give me the same message that the system was halted, press any key to reboot. I later learned that "shutdown -p now" would shut the power off as well. Maybe your window system is doing the equivalent of -h instead of -p.
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