I upgraded from Mandrake to Debian sarge and am having an issue with powering down. Under Mandrake, "power off" from KDE (or from GDM) would work just fine; the computer would switch off. Under the current setup, it shuts down all processes, and I can hear it shutting down the hard drives (?); however, the monitor and the power to the box stays on (CD drives can be ejected, the fan comes on, etc etc). When I turn it off and on again from this state, the bios re-recognizes all of the hard drives. I used Grub in Mandrake, and use Grub now in Debian: APM is on, as far as I can make out (here's the kernel lines from menu.lst)

title Installed 1-18-04 2.4.22 k6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 apm=on ro hdc=scsi hdb=scsi
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.22-1-k6
savedefault

title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.19
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda1 apm=on ro hdc=scsi hdb=scsi
savedefault

title Libranet GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.19 (single user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda1 apm=on ro hdc=scsi hdb=scsi single
savedefault

Any ideas?

Thanks

My SuSE system does that too. I just think that Linux is leaving you to flip the switch. It should do no harm to your computer, the hardrives have already been unmounted and no processes are running.

I wonder what command is bound to in the GUI (is guess you use some GUI "shutdown" from the start menu).

Try typing either
shutdown
or
halt -p
in a command terminal and see if it shuts down completely then. If it does, then you could possibly change the setting for what command is executed.

Regards
Martin

you need compile APM(Advanced Power Management) into your kernel or load it as as a module
and it will then fully shutdown for you

yea, thats it.
run
modprobe apm
if it's not there, compile it in.