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  1. Bug #882817
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 882817

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 882817] Re: shutdown screen stuck after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 02:43:01PM -0000, Tipi Koivisto wrote:
> On the other hand when I do "shutdown 0" as root the last message in
> standard output is "*Will now halt..." and then comes Mr. Freeze. I can
> even hear the hardrive shutting down but then it just freezes.

> Therefore I think the problem is in somewhere between Halt and hardware.

That's a different issue. "halt" does not guarantee that the system is
powered off; to get this you need to use the 'poweroff' command or 'shutdown
-P'.

If you call 'shutdown -P' and the system still does not power off, that's a
(separate) bug. But not powering off in response to 'shutdown'/'halt' is
allowed behavior. I'm not sure *why* the behavior changed, and maybe we
should revert it for future releases, but for now please use the explicit
command.

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