Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Hans
I had this issue in the past. Sometimes I could fix it by just reinstalling grub and the kernel. However, what that fixed? Dunno, but worked for me. Best Hans

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Verde Denim
On 1/17/2017 1:00 PM, Curt wrote: On 2017-01-17, wrote: Since it's a desktop I told the users that it's safe to power off the thing when in this state and filed it under "unsolved hardware/init system quirks". I suffer from one of these unsolved quirks. Occasionally my machine will shutdown

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 18.01.2017 um 08:44 schrieb Joerg Desch: > Am Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:59:46 -0800 schrieb Bob McGowan: > >> When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from >> systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown". > > Just a thought... > > I'm running Debian Jes

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:59:46 -0800 schrieb Bob McGowan: > When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from > systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown". Just a thought... I'm running Debian Jessie and I see the same behavior with my Thinkpad T500. I

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Bob McGowan
On 01/17/2017 02:39 AM, Hans wrote: > I remember this discussion from sime time ago. Debian has changed a real > poweroff from "halt" to "halt -p". The second one is according to the manual. > > As far as I remeber, "shutdown" is just a wrapper fpr the halt command, but I > am not quite sure. >

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Joe
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:00:00 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2017-01-17, wrote: > > > > Since it's a desktop I told the users that it's safe to power off > > the thing when in this state and filed it under "unsolved > > hardware/init system quirks". > > I suffer from one of these unsolved quirk

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Curt
On 2017-01-17, wrote: > > Since it's a desktop I told the users that it's safe to power off the thing > when in this state and filed it under "unsolved hardware/init system quirks". I suffer from one of these unsolved quirks. Occasionally my machine will shutdown correctly but will not power off

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Hans
I remember this discussion from sime time ago. Debian has changed a real poweroff from "halt" to "halt -p". The second one is according to the manual. As far as I remeber, "shutdown" is just a wrapper fpr the halt command, but I am not quite sure. But one thing was cleared: To poweroff a debia

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On 5 January 2017 at 09:09, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as > > > the su

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Johann Spies
On 5 January 2017 at 09:09, Bob McGowan wrote: > On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as > > the subject, and found several references to emails with similar > > problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. > >

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-04 Thread Bob McGowan
On 01/04/2017 10:59 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as > the subject, and found several references to emails with similar > problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. > > And this actually only happens on one of the two systems

shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-04 Thread Bob McGowan
I have done a search of the debian-user archive, using the same text as the subject, and found several references to emails with similar problems. However, no exact solution was proposed. And this actually only happens on one of the two systems I have Debian installed on. I'm using testing (stre

Re: shutdown fails

2003-11-26 Thread Robin Gerard
Thanks for your advices, the machine of my daughter works fine now with the kernel 2.4.20 but it's a lot of work to ugrade (manualy) my potato with the kernel 2.4.20. Potato not fits the new machines. On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:25:08PM -0500, Aaron D. Ball wrote: > Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: shutdown fails

2003-11-25 Thread Aaron D. Ball
Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Potato on an ASUS A7N8X-DX motherboard locks up after...] > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled I just built a machine with this same board this weekend and had the same problem with a fresh install of Sid. I was able to work aroun

shutdown fails

2003-11-24 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, ( thanks for the informations about the server debian. ) my daughter have bought a computer: motherboard: Assus A7N8k Delux processeur: AMD athlon 2000+ HD: 80 Gb Graphics card: Assus V8460 Series etc I installed easily Potato on this machine (without sound and xfree yet) but when I