I have recently migrated from Fedora Core 6 to new Fedora release 7.
When i shut down my new F7, after displaying "System Halted, Powering off" msg, it simply goes to sleepy mode and does not respond to anything. So i have to explicitly restart my PC.
Since my motherboard is ATX, it has to power off my PC.
But previously while using FC6, shut down worked properly, powering off my PC. Problem also had with FC3, but not with FC4,FC5 and FC6.

Please any one solve my problem. I am fed up off powering off my PC manually.

That's normal, Linux never really meant to support automatic powering off anyways, and with the instability of Fedora, that's to be expected. There's not much you can really do to fix it. Just leave your computer running and count your uptime instead of shutting it down.

Erm, Sorry but all I can give are idea's ;

Number one - install acpitool and do an acpitool -e (I think it's e for 'everything').. Give us the output.

Also, do you know what motherboard you have?
You could run kinfocenter (if it's installed), or give us your smolt output (smolt is a hardware info gathering program in F7).

You could search the Fedora bugzilla - but I hate that myself..
Perhaps you can google for "Fedora sleep shutdown halt acpi" - although those results aren't stellar!

Perhaps you could check your BIOS settings and see what is available in there?
Hows about using a normal 'shutdown -h now' command?

.. You could try getting a previous kernel (from www.kernel.org) and try building that (that's a fair bit extreme!). A seperate install (if you have a free partition / hard-disk).
Do you have Xen installed (I wished that I could get KVM working on a brand new install but both Xen and KVM seem to be mashed together and unusable in Fedora - so that could be a point of failure).

Some idea's for you to think over..

Once you get to the GRUB screen where you select Fedora to boot, place the cursor on Fedora option and hit 'e'. Then place it again on the kernel line and hit 'e'. Now go to end of the line and type acpi=off ,Hit 'enter' and finally 'b' to boot. Get into Fedora and now try shutting down. Let us know what happens.

I have to boot with acpi=off in order to have any sound because FC7 can't read my DSDT file. My computer also shuts down and then leaves the last step up to me....(pushing the OFF button). I always assumed it was because I was booting with acpi=off because acpi deals with power management.

This won't work for me because of my sound problem but I would think that forcing acpi with "acpi=force" in the boot line instead of shutting it off might also be worth a try.

Jay

I had accepted the fact that if I ever wanted sound that I had to boot with acpi=off and thus sacrifice some power management functions. It has been months now and when I read this posting I started trying some things in an attempt to find out if my shutdown issue( I had to press the power button after shutdown to turn off) was related to having my acpi turned off. So, I took out the acpi=off code and rebooted. Not only does my computer shut down all the way now with no assistance but I STILL HAVE SOUND!! YEA ME!! Was it an update that fixed the problem or did I do something that fixed it???? Who cares!! I have all power/battery/and sound functions for the first time. Now let me ghost my drive before it goes away.

Guys, I have a similar situation with my Dell ATX box. Other op systems have powered the box down before.

I tried the acpi=off and acpi=force at the grub level; neither one worked. Just tells me the ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:08.0 disabled.

Any ideas for my case?

Tom D.