Re: Power Off on Halt (fwd)

Michael J. Bedy (mjbedy@mtu.edu)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:57:59 -0500 (EST)


I had the same problem with libc5.

- Mike

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

->On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
->> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Ricardo Manuel Pacheco Salgado wrote:
->
->> > I've just upgraded to 2.1.89 from 2.0.34, and I'm pretty amazed with the
->> > new features of this kernel... But, there is a but.
->> > With the previous kernel version my system would POWER OFF on HALT, but it
->> > no longer does that. I compiled the support for it, but it doesn't seem to
->> > work... Any Ideas???
->
->> Are you sure that you are running poweroff and not halt?
->
->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.) The kernel is compiled with "APM Power
->Management BIOS Support" and "Power off on shutdown".
->
->Has anybody else seen this problem?
->

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