"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> This must depend on your hardware; it worked just fine for me in RedHat
> 6.1 as well as in Mandrake 7.0.
>
> (With a Dell Inspiron 7500.)
>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | > Linux can shutdown your machine automatically AND safely only if you
> | > currently are running single processor mode. If you are shutting down
> | > from smp, the power manager has been disabled and is unavailable to do
> | > the shutdown. In the future maybe, but now from smp mode YOU get to push
> | > the button.
> | >
> | APM (at least in RedHat/Mandrake 5.x and 6.x) is buggy and will cause the
> | symptoms exhibited by the person who posted the original question. I can't
> | speak for Mandrake 7.x, though.
> | John
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Look in initscripts
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt
On the very LAST line
eval $command -i -d -p
remove the -p
Now it won't try to power down and you won't see the errors.
Just switch off the power yourself.
Civileme
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