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12-17-2009, 01:39 AM
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HELP! shutdown doesn't totally turned off
Hello Linux Guru's and Knowable Ones
I'm a starter in linux and I have a problem on my freshe installed redhat 9.
Everytime I shutdown my linux it always stuck whith this last lines:
Turning off swap: [OK]
Turning off quotas: [OK]
Unmounting file systems: [OK]
Halting system...
Flushing ide devices: hda hdc
Power down.
So to completely turn off my pc I always have to press the main power of my cpu. I seen a similar redhat distro in our office but it does completely shutdown.
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12-17-2009, 02:12 AM
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Registered: Aug 2005
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freshe installed redhat 9
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THAT is your problem!!!!
rh9 is SO OLD AND OUTDATED ( end of life 2003)that it will not even run on new computers
install a SUPPORTED operating system like RHEL 5.4 or the free version " CentOS 5.4 "
see http://distrowatch.com/
for current versions an flavors of Linux.
Last edited by John VV; 12-17-2009 at 02:14 AM.
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12-17-2009, 02:19 AM
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That's not an RH9 problem, actually. Your hardware doesn't support turning off the computer via software. In such cases it is normal that you have to push the power button as soon as the "Power down" message appears. Even with a new Linux system you would have to do it that way on your computer. Maybe you could tweak or upgrade your BIOS to change that, but usually that's too much hassle.
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12-17-2009, 02:25 AM
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Thank you
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Originally Posted by AngTheo789
That's not an RH9 problem, actually. Your hardware doesn't support turning off the computer via software. In such cases it is normal that you have to push the power button as soon as the "Power down" message appears. Even with a new Linux system you would have to do it that way on your computer. Maybe you could tweak or upgrade your BIOS to change that, but usually that's too much hassle.
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Thank you for this, 
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12-17-2009, 03:40 AM
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To be more precise, its an ACPI issue that can be resolved with some digging and a boot flag or two I imagine. Or it could be APM depending on the kernel configuration but I doubt it as APM has been designated as legacy code and will be removed eventually. I have ran into this countless times on PCs manufactured before 2001 and have to use acpi=off and noacpi bootflags which were entered into grubs menu.lst file.
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12-17-2009, 07:15 PM
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Thaks for this
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Originally Posted by AutoBot
To be more precise, its an ACPI issue that can be resolved with some digging and a boot flag or two I imagine. Or it could be APM depending on the kernel configuration but I doubt it as APM has been designated as legacy code and will be removed eventually. I have ran into this countless times on PCs manufactured before 2001 and have to use acpi=off and noacpi bootflags which were entered into grubs menu.lst file.
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Thanks Sir, 
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12-17-2009, 07:41 PM
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Your welcome, did you get it working?
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12-17-2009, 08:50 PM
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( end of life 2003)that it will not even run on new computers
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Really? a 7 year old operating system will so work on new computers, its like saying win xp will not work on new computers.
Even ms-dos works on new computers.
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12-17-2009, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by smeezekitty
Really? a 7 year old operating system will so work on new computers, its like saying win xp will not work on new computers.
Even ms-dos works on new computers.
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That may be true, but depending on the hardware a kernel upgrade _might_ be necessary just for drivers if the hardware was released after the distro, at which point you might as well grab a more recent release.
Although, you are correct: if it runs, run it.
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12-17-2009, 10:27 PM
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Me too faced the same scenario with my system I bought at 2002, but redhat 9 is working fine on my new pc,
It is definitely a hardware issue.
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12-18-2009, 12:50 AM
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Thanks
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Originally Posted by AutoBot
Your welcome, did you get it working?
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Nah I've just live with it, besides, you all guys are right, my hardware is really out of date or too old for the operating system.
M.Board = ASROCK M266-A Intel Chipset.
Well Thanks again four your answers sir. 
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