Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:31:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au (Malcolm Fitzgerald) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? Message-ID: <200603211431.k2LEVdSL025335@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au>
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> 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?
Sounds like one (or both) of two things.
One (most likely) you are using the wrong command to shut the machine down.
shutdown -h [now] tells it to shut down the system and leave it on
but in a 'halted' state, just as you are seeing.
You need to use:
shutdown -p [now] to get it to power down after it finishes shutting down.
The other possibility is that your BIOS is either not set to accept
a power down signal or there is some incompatibility with it and what
FreeBSD sends it. If just switching to '-p' above doesn't do the
trick, go in to the BIOS and look for where it turns the software power
down feature on and off and make sure it is on.
////jerry
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> Malcolm
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