Hi,

I just installed fc6 on my dell dimension 8100 (its about 5 years old). "shutdown -P now" does not power down my computer.

I've had red hat 7.x and fc2 on this computer a while back and I'm sure I got it to shutdown.

I see that that the acpid and apmd daemons are running (not sure if either actually does the shutdown but know they do something with power.)

When I issue "shutdown -P now" the system goes through a number of things and finally stops (hangs?) on:

INIT: Going Single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
sh-3.1#



I’ve seen comments when I Googled this problem about having apm compiled into the kernel but I think fc6 comes with this (but I’m not sure). I’m not sure what to do at this point.

what about "halt -f"?

Try using shutdown -h now. The -h sends the halt/power off you are looking for.

Digital Diablo

Thanks, that did the trick.