Comment 4 for bug 880240

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spotter (spotter-yucs) wrote : Re: ubuntu 11.10 : the system doesn't turn off if "sudo halt" is given

This is due to "halt", no longer powering off the machine as well, now one has to tell it to poweroff explicitly.

I personally don't get the use case where one would want to "halt" the machine without powering it off, as well as the fact that it changes years of behavior.