Re: Power Off on Halt (fwd)

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linux@linux.net.eu.org)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:43:14 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Johan Myréen wrote:

> I have the same problem. The machine (an ATX PPro, VS440FX)
> does not power off, although it did it before. It just prints
> "System halted." I have tried /sbin/halt -p and
> /sbin/poweroff.
>
> This started happening when I compiled a new init (2.72) with
> glibc (2.0.6), so the cause could be either init or glibc. (I
> suspect glibc.)

Can't be glibc...
I'm having the same problem on a ATX K6 running sysvinit 2.73 and glibc
2.0.7 as well as a Medion Notebook running sysvinit 2.73 and libc 5.4.44.

LLaP
bero

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