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  1. Bug #882817
  2. Comment #65

Comment 65 for bug 882817

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Tipi Koivisto (tipit) wrote : Re: [Bug 882817] Re: shutdown screen stuck after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

> 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'.
>
Ok. I did not now about the separation, but either one of those works.

> If you call 'shutdown -P' and the system still does not power off, that's a
> (separate) bug.

Ok. Then I will open a new issue.

> 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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