Hi, >On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:10:11AM +0100, Vincent Truchseß wrote: >> Since upgrading to stretch my system keeps hanging on shutdown with >> only a cursor visible, but no output. tty0 still shows output from the >> previous boot. >> >> There is no error-message, but SysRq-Keys still work. > > Faced with that problem, I switched to using the 'poweroff' command instead > of 'halt' to shut the computer down. Have you tried it?
Yes, Halt or shutdown used to implement a power off. But some time ago I was told the same, to really power off a system using the command line one needs to use the poweroff command en not just shutdown/ halt which will only shutdown the OS but not the hardware. Bonno
